Keach - Houston-Packer Collection BT155 .K4 1698

he was to deal with God for Man, and for God with Man. Jefus Chrift ought tobe of the fame Stock with thole he Redeemedor Sanctified to God, sEtt®-, of one Stock, of one Blood faith a wor- thy Author ; ` That by the Lawof Propinquity Dr. Man- ` of Blood, he might have right to redeem us ; ton, 4 Vol. ` Goel the next ofKin, had an Obligationupon p. ro84. ` him to redeem his Brother's Land if M.ortga- sged : If thy Brother be waxen poor, and bath Levu, 25® fold away force of his Poffeffion, and if any of23, 26® ` his Kin come to redeem it,thenfhall he redeem that ` which his Brother fold. So of Perfons, If fold, after he is f ld per.q 7,q 8 ` he maybe redeemed again,one ofhis Brethren may 6 redeem him : So Chrift is called Goel, Job 19. ` 25. For Iknow that my Redeemer liveth : Chrift is our Kinfman, not only true Man, but the Son of Man ; true Man he might have been, ifGodhadcreated him out of nothing, or he had brought his Substance from Heaven ; but ` he is the Son of Man defcended from the ` Loins of Adam, as we are, and fo doth re- ' deemus, not onlyure proprietatis, by virtue ` of his InterefL as our Creator, but Y.:ire pro- ' pinquitatis, by virtue of Kindred, as one of the fame Stock and Lineage, as the Son of C David, * as well as the Sari of God, for * The Dr, ` Chrift Jefus, of all the Kindred, was the only faith A- t, one that was free, andable to pay a Ranfome dam. c for us. 5. He muff be Man, as the faid Author notes, That we might find a Fountain. of Holinefs in our Nature, God hath pouredout upon his Hu-.. 43

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