to 188 SERMONS upon Serm.33 he offered up himfelf; Heb. 9. 14. Who through the eternal Spirit offered himfelf without (pot to God. 2. It fignifieth his Qualification and Fitnefs ; he did fit the Humane Nature with all habitual and actual Holinefs, in this fenfe Chrift did fanClify himfelf, as God he fitted, hintlelf for this Work. (1.) There was the Innocency and Purity of his Humane Nature without any (twin of Corruption, and therefore he is called that holy Thing, Luke t. 35. This Holinefs was neceffary in regard of himfelf, otherwife his Humane Nature could not be a((ùmed into the Unity of his Perlon, for God can have no Communion with Sin, no more than Light and Darknefs can agree together. It was neceffary in regard of his Office, that he might fatisfy for our Sins. Heb. 7. 26.' Such an High » rieft became tor, who is holy, barmlef, undefiled, feparate from Sinners. The Prieft of the Gofpel mull be fin - lefs, becaufe of the excellency of the Sacrifice, that the Priell may not be worfe than the Sacrifice. While things were carried in Type and Figure, and a Beall was offered in Sacrifice, a.finful Man fufficed : But now the Satisfaûion was really to be made for us, and Sin done away, and we were to be made really Holy ; our Prieft was to be holy, harmlefs, undefiled. It is for our Comfort that Chrift was SanE%ified ; his Ori- ginal Sanflity is a Remedy againft our. Original Sin and Impurity. When we are troubled with our Natural Deformity, it is comfortable to think, that God looketh up- on us in Chrift, who was Holy by Nature ; it is a comfortable Hope, that the Cor- ruption of our Nature is covered in God's Eyes, and thall be diminifhed more and more. Ti is hi Aûual Holinefs in his Converfation. The Bufinefs of the Mediator was to commend Obedience, and he path done it by his own Example, and the way that he took to recover us to God. Rom. 5. 19..4r by one Man's Difobedieúce, many were made Sinners ;,f by the Obedience of one, (ball many be made Righteous. Phil. 2. 5. Let the fame Mind be in you, that was in Chrifi Jefie. Some di(like fuch a particular Appli- cation, wp have need of all Chriffs Properties, and we fhould make ufe of all. Why doth the Scripture fet it down, but to thew that he is fit to remove Sin Original and /Vital ? As a covetous Man looks on a piece of Gold, or we on a thing that we de- light in, we turn it on every fide. The firft Adam was by God's Inflitution a common Perlon, in him finning theWorld finned : the fecond Adam was a publick Foùntain of Holinefs, who is an infinite Perron, as well as a publick Perlon. Thirdly; The Objeft, I fandify my Pelf; not an Angel to do this Work for us, but Himfelf. Under the Law the Netts .offered Bulls and Goats, while they themfelves re- mained untouched, but Chrift offered himfelf. As God he was Prieft, as Man the Sa- crifice. As there was Love in the Prieft, fo there is worth in the Sacrifice, Chrift was both Prieu and Sacrifice, it was himfelf that he offered as a Recompence to angry Juflice: Osherwile we might fay, Here is the Perlon fan&ifying ; but where is the Sa- crifice ? As Ifaac Paid to his Father, Gen. 2 2. 7. Behold the Fire and the Wood : bat where it the Lamb for the Barns- Ofring? It is good to fee in what Nature Chrift was the Prieft, and in what Nature the Sacrifice : in his Divine Nature the Prieu,for he offered himfelf through the Eternal Spirit to God, Heb. 9. 14. In his Humane Nature principally he was the Sacrifice ; kit it is laid, Heb. to. to. We are fanliified through the Offering of the Body of jefus Chrifi once for all. The Godhead could not be offered, for who can offer himfelf, or any other thing to himfelf? And befides, the thing facrificed mull be (lain, for it is Bloodfhed which was given to God upon his Altar. in this refpeEt it is aid by Chrift, John 6.5 a. The Bread which I will give,io my Flefb,which I willgive for the Life of the World. And when he had inflituted the Eucharifl in memory of this great Sacrifice, he mentioneth his Body broken, and given, and his Blood (lied. Yet be- caufe the Ptiell and the Sacrifice is one, the value of this Sacrifice arikth from the Divine Nature. It is the Blood of God, Ahls 20. 28. that is, of the Perlon who was God. Fourthly ; The Perfons interefled ; for their fakes. a. Negatively ;. not for himfelf, he needed it not, he had no Sin to expiate, nor Happinefs to purchafe anew. The Scripture never (peaks of Chrift's doing any thing for his own fake,but Rill of his Love to us. His Incarnation was for us ; Ifa.9.6. To XI a Child, iii born, to us a Son is given. His Obedience was for us', Gal. 4. 4, 5. But when the felnef of Time was come, Clod font forth his Son, made of a Woman, made under the. Law, Y
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