E-vidwces of Divine Wifdom Unt? Ob~clzence by the very conll:itution .of his Being and ne– ce11ary Relation unto God. This \vas that whicb rendred it fo exceeding Gnful, and the confequents of it eternall_x mi. ferabl c. And from this Obligation his . fin in any one In~ fiance was a totg.l Renuntiation of all Obedience unto God. The recompence with re !peB: unto the Glory of God, for Difobecltence mull: be by Obeclience, as hat~1 been before de· dared. And if there be not a full Obedience yielded unto the Law of GGd in that Nature that finned, man cannot be faved without an eternal violation ofthe Glory of God therein. But the Difobedience of him who was every way obliged un- ' to Obedience, could not be compenfated but by his Obedience, who was no way obliged thereunto. And this could be only the Obedience of him that is God, (for all Creatures are ob– liged to Obedience for themfelves) and it could be performed only by him who was man. \Vherefore for the accomplifll· mentofthis Obedience, he who in his own Perfon, as God, was above the Law, was in his Humane Nature, in his own Perfon, as man, mace under the Law. Had he not been made under the Law, what he did could not have been Obedi~ ence ; and had he not been in himfelf above the Law, his Obedience could not have been beneficial unto us. The fin of Adam '(and the fame is in the .nature of every fin) confified in this, that he who was naturally €vel)' way under the Law, and fubjefr u:1to it, would be every wtry above the Law, and no way obliged by it. \Vherefore it was taken away unto the Glory of God, by his 0/Jedience, who being in him– felf ahove the Law, no way fubjecr unto ir, yet fubmitted, humbled himfelf, to bemade under the Law, to be every way obliged by it, fee Gal. 3· q. Chap. 4· 4· Thisisthe fubjecr of the difcourfe of the Apoftle, Rom. 5. from ver .12. to the end of the Chapter. Unto the Glory ofGod in all thefe Ends the Perfon ofChrifl: as
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