C H A P. r. Imputat. o f Chrif s Active And Pa f fiv: obedience. 44T prove , that iSatisfad=lion largely taken, may not , or cannot , yea or muff not , include obedience, this being part of our debt to the Law , and to the Lawgiver : nor will it prove, that there was nothing of Satisfaction in Chrift'S obedience , which he performed in his ftate of humiliation: It is- true , where there is Satisfaälion , there is & may be Remiflion but Re. mill.ïonis not all , that we Rand in need of. But he will have that obedien- ce,. which Chrift exhibited to the moral Law , no way penal : And his rea- fon is , becaufeit was required ofman, in his innocency , dsimpofed by God upon Adam before his fall ,_ Yea d5' f ill fyeth 6' shall lye to the dayes of eternity upon mend Angels. Anf. Yet for all this, it might be & was penal unto Chrift, who- was not meet man , but God & man in one perfón : And for Him , who was God , & above all Law , that man cómeth under , CO fubjecf him felf to that Law, which was impofed uponman , asa Victor, muff needs be penal , it being a part of his fubjettion, as made under the Law , & a piece othis humiliation , for thus , in part , he tookupon him tht forme ofa fervant,. (LT was made in the likenefs ofmen; d? being found in fashion, as a man , he hum- bled himfelf; &became obedient unto death. Phil. z: 7, S. G41.q.: 4.- What they do, who are in glory , is not to the purpofe ; forhere we are (peaking of the obedience & fubjc Lion of loch , as are Viators , & not Comprehenfors. And Adam while innocent , was a Viator ; and Chrift , to pay that debt,. which was require& of us all, as Viators , did humble himfelf to performer the obedience ofa Viator, in our place , & in our Read, that fo he might give full fatisfadfion, & pay our whole debt. From hence ,. there is no .ground for his Inference , ro wit , that. There- fore man was punirhed , dT that by order dT appointment of God before his fall, d5' that now the glorifred Saints d? Angels , yea & jejus Chrifl hirePelf, are Horn Pu- nished in heaven. For Wit mightbe& was penal to him, who was God, , which was duty unto man in innocency , as is cleared , & (a). The Obedien- ce of Saints & Angels , now in' glory , & far lees that of jefus Chritl him - fYlt,. (ifit can properly be called obedience ) is not the duty of t!iators , & therefore utterly impertinent to our purpofe : We do not fay , that Adam's obedience was penal, :t being.his duty: bût Chrift's was ,feing no Law re quired euch obedience of him , who was God ; nor was it neceffaly even to' his humane Nature, in order to life for himfelf : for the hypoftatical union filly removed that neceflìty, &either made him, as to himfelf, in refpec of his humane nature, acomprehenfor, or in the neareft capacity to it, even when he was fubjeóting himfel f to the obedience of a Viator, for us, and as (landing in our room. But he faith , the Scriptures themfelver no where afcribe this fatisfacçianto Chrifl'r AElive obedience; but full to hir paffive. And here he citeth many paffages of Scripture , to no p tirpofe , feing none of thefe give any hint of the exclufìon (of his active obedience; but rather do include it; or elfe he may aswellfay, that all Chri Ft's aétive obedience was no way neceflary, or req.uifite , unto the work of Redemption ; becaufe thefe paffages do not ex- prefly fay fo;. and yet this -he will not fay, feing he granteth, that his obedien- ce was an effential_rec(ui : to ,- & abfolutly necci;ary, to the coitftitution of him. ?r,
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