510 y ohn Forbes,and(endelin's Arguments dnd reafoningt, CHAP. 4, garments together with that plate of pure gold , that was upon the mitre , on the forefront having engraven upon it HOLINESS TO THE LORD i ;xed. 2$. was fufficient to rypifie & hold forth Chrift's holy obedience & Righteoufneft , & could not typifie his death & facrifice. And without a Righteoufnefs , there is nocoming or approaching unto God , & this Righ- teoufnefs is forne oth:r thing , than rneer remiffion of fins. Hisargueìng from the Priefls firli entry on their office at 30. Yeers of age , & Chrift's doing the like Lull. 3: 21. to inferre , that no action performed by Chrift be- fore that time, can be accounted the action of expiation of fin , or of recon- ciliation of us to God , is molt vaine; for (i) we make no limitation or re- firidion of his expiatory work to what he did before he was 3o yeers of age. (2) This will make againft himfelf, & nothing for limiting & re(iricking all to his la ft at o' death. Therefore he addeth . That noadiondone after byChriß, tan be accounted a Prieftly at:ionofexpiation except only the cff ring of hitn fèlf, entering with bit own blood into the heavens for us. Out then (i) what will he do with his prayer & interceflionbefore his death, fpecially'ohr17 ? (2) There was more than expiation of fins requi ice to bring us unto God ; There- fore the High Priett was to carry that memorial on c he front of his Mitre. The learned Wendeline, iii his Great SyftenleofTheology lib, i. c. 2j. The]; 7. pax. i r t G. &c. difpt;terh againft the imputation ofrhe Alive obedience of Chriti together with Th'e Paffive , making it only a Condition rec uifite in the MeAator , foas without it , he could not be our Mediator & merise any thing to us , by his death : So that in his judgment , Chrift'saEiive obedien- ce , whereby his Obedience to the Law of God is underfiood , & that no doubt , moral, Ceremonial & Judicial , did only contribute to qualify him, to be a fic Mediator , which it feemeth then , according co him , he was not by his hypollatical union ; & to put a value upon his paffive obedience , (by which he underftands bis fuf-fering & dying , fo undergóing the Curie of the , Law , & paying the penalty in our room) which his being God did not , as it would feem , fufiiciently doe : And thus all his acts of obedience, while under the Law , & in the ftare of humiliation , howbeit in all he may be conceived asafuf}erer, are excluded from being any part of the Satisfaction, he was to make unto juftice , 8: to the Law giver, for us&in our room , or any partof that Righteoufnefs, which is imputed to us, in order to ¡u- ftificatiOn. He first propofeth his Arguments& Vindicateth t hem, & then propofeth, lone, ufed for the contrary pinion, adding his Aufwers. His i.Arg. is, Chrsft,as man , was boundtogive atlive obedience to the Last', for bim elf; every Creature is bound to obey his Creator. Therefore it is not imputed unto w. Anf. The Antecedent is denied; neither loth the proof adduced con - firmeit; for the humane Nature ofCh rift, now in the ftate of glory, is & will be a creature for ever; Yea the confirmed angels , & Saints made per- feet are Creatures, yet not fubjcci to any Law as Vtatoret ,but as Coinpreben- fiires ; inch was mot the obedience of Chriti , while in the flesh. He was obe- client, as aViator, but inrefpeci:ofhimfelf, he cannot be looked upon asa --met r Victor, his Humane Nature being perf'on ally united unto the divine, & rub-
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