in the Cm~flitution of the Perfon of [/;rift 355 From the eternal Springs thereof mufl this .work arife, or ceafe for ever. _ ~ To trace fome of the footfreps ofDivine Wifclom herein, in and from the Revelation of it by its effects, is that which lieth before us. Andfundrythings appear to have been necef1ary N ereunto. As . , £~~ 1. That all the things required unto our Reflauration, the /~ whole work wherein they confifl mufl be wrcught in our own · Nature, in the Nature that had finned, and which was to be refiored and brought unto Glory. On fuppofition I fay, of the Salvation of our Nature, no fatisfaEtion can be made unto the Glory of God for the lin of that Nature, but in the Na– ture it felfthat finned and is to be faved. For whereas God gavethe Law unto Man as an effeEtofhis Wifdom and Holi– nefs, which he tranfgreffed in his defobedience, wherein could the Glory of them or either of them be exalted if the fame Law were complied withal and fulfilled in and by a Nature of another kind, fuppofe that ofAngels? For notwith– ftanding any fuch Obedience, yet the L~w might be unfoitec( unto the Nature ofmanwhereunto it was originally prefcribed. Wherefore there would be avail drawn over t heGlory of God, ingJving the Lawunto man, ifit were not fulfilled by Obedi~ ence in the fame Nature. Nor can there be any fuch Relation ~etween the Obedience and fufferings of one Nature , in the fiead and for the difobedience ofanother, as that Glory might enfue unto the Wifdom, Holinefs and Jufrice ofGod , in the deliverance ofthat other Nature thereon. The Scripture abounds in the declaration of the nece.J}ity hereof, with its conr.lece"cy unto Divine vVifdom. Speakina ofthe way of our Relief and Recovery; verily, Gith the A~ pofile, he took not on him the Nature of Angels, I-ie!J. ,._ 16. ·Had it been_the Recovery of Angels vrhich he defigned, he would have taken their Nature on him. But this would · have
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