in tlJe Contrivance of the Work of!J\§demption. 2 73 as an effefr of injnite Wifdom was meet and able to be a .Mediator and Undertaker between God and Man. In the · V nun of both our Natures in the fame Perfon, he was fo meet by his relation unto both; unto God by jfiation or fon– •fhip,unto us by brotherhoodor neernefs 6fkindred,He/J.2.I4And he was able from the dignity of his Perfon. For the ..- - Temporary fufferings of him who was eternal; was a full ::: compenfation for the Eternal fuffering) of them who were temporary. . 4· God made man the Lord of all thitt-g,s here below He was :as it were the H eir of God, as unto the Inheritance of this world in prefent, and as u_nto a blefied fiate in eternal Glory. But he loi1: all Right and Title hereunto·by fin. · He made forfeiture of the whole, by the Law of the Tenure whereby he held it, and God took the forfeiture. Wherefore he defigns a New Heir of all, and vefis the whole Inheritance ofHea– ven a:nd Earth in him, even in his Son. He appointed him the Heir of all things, He/J. I_. y· This Tranflation of Gods Inhe- · ritance theApoi1:le declares, He/J. '· 6, 7, 8, 9· For the words which he cites from 'pfaL. 8. 4, 5, 6. What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the Son ofman that thou vifitefl him r For thou haft mude him a little lower than the Angels, and haft - crowned him with Glory and Honour: ihoumadejl him to have ' 'Dominion over the works ofthy hands .~ ihou haft put all things unrfer his feet; do declare ·the original condition of Mankind in general. But man forfeited the Dominion and Inheritance that he was entrufred withal; and God fettleth it anew, folely in the Man Chrifi Jefus . So the Apofile adds . T4'e fee _not all things put under him, !Jut we fee it all accomplifhed in · -Jefw, ver. 9· But as all other. Inheritances do defcend-with theirs, f6 did this unto him with its Burden. There was a great Debt upon it, the debt offin. _This he was to undergo, -to make payment of, or fatisfacrion ·for, or he could not N n rightly
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