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T
he
efficacy
of
the
Ob1.f
Chin
its
influence
into
the
St
Perf.C.V1.4.1o.
2.
The
Law
ofGod
is
fulfilled.Unleffe this
be anfwered
in all
concerne- r63
ments
of
it the Lordwould be thought
to
change
his
Will,
to reverie
his
Word,
and
to
blurre the Coppy
of
his
owne
Holineffe.
There
is
in
the
whole
Law, and every parcell
ofit
an
eternall indifpenfable Righteoufneffe
and
Truth:
arifing
either from the nature
of
things themfelves concerning which
it
is
or the Relation
ofone
thing unto another.
That
to
feare God, to Love
him,to Obey him,to doe
no wrong,are everlaftingly indifpenfablely good &
neceffary,is
from the
nature
ofthe
things themfelves: only
with
this fuppofi-
tion
,
that
God would make Creatures capable
ofyeilding
him
fuch
Obedi-
ence.
That
that
which
is
good,
thall be fo
rewarded, that
which
is
evill
fo
punifhed,
is
allo an everlafting
truth
upon
fuppofition
of
fuch
a&wall
perfor-
mances.
Whereas then
of
this Law
there
are two parts,
the
one
Abfolute
or
Preceptive,
in
the Rule
and commands
thereof, The
other
Conditional!,
and
rewarding
in
its Promife, or condemning
in its
curfe, Chrift. by
his
death
put
himfelfe, in
their behalfe,for whom
he
Dyed,
(to
fpeake
to
that panicu-
lar)
under
the
curfe
of
it.
Gal.
3.53.
He Redeemed
us
from
the
curfe
ofthe
Law,
Roma.;.
being made
e
curfe
for
us;
neither
is
this
at
all
fufpended
on
our
Believing;
The
Gáÿ
41°g
5;6.
Law doth not threaten
a
Curfe,only
if
we
do
not
Believe,
but
if
we
do
not
Philipp.3.p.
all
things
written therein; whether we believe
or not, the
Law takes no no
Deut.27.
26.
tice,
as
to
the Curie
that it
denounceth;
If
there hath
been any
finne,
that
mutt
be executed. And
the
Law
is
for
the
Curie,
as
Ifaac
for
the the great
Gen. 29. 21.
Spirituali Blefhng; He
had
but
one;
it
'bath
but
one
great
Curie, and
that
being
underrgone
by Chrift,
it
hath not
an
other
for them,
in whole Read
Chrift underwent it;God having
made him
to
be
fn
for
m
who
!¿new
no
fin,
we
become
the
Righteoufne(fe
of
God
in him;
All
feparation from God
is
by
the
2
eor.gsr.
Curie
ofthe
Law;
All
that
is
required
in
it,
by
it,
is,
that
it
be undergone
this
is
done by Chrift for
all Believers:
that
thereby
is
taken
away, which
alone can feparate them from
God,or put
any diftance
between them: But
of
this, and
their
fubje
&ion
to
the Curie before their
Believing,
more
after
-
wards.
.
3.
The
Trath,or veracity
ofGod
was
particularly ingaged
to
fee
fin
punifhed,
4,
lo,
upon
the
account
of
the Promùlgatib
of
the firlt
expres
San &ion
of
the
Law;
In
the
day
thou
eatefl,thoußialt
dye
;For the
fatisfÿing
the ingagement
of
God's
Gen.s.i9.
Truth,
there
feem'd
to be
a
tender
made
in
the
Sacrifices
inftituted
of
old:
but
it
was
reje&ed,as
infuflicient
to
make good
that Word
of
God,
fo
emi-
nently
given
out; There
was
neither
any fuch Relation,LTnion,
or Conjun
&i
-
on between the
(inner
and the innocent Creature
Sacrificed,
or
any
fuch
reali
worth
in
the
Sacrifice
it
felfe,as
that
the Death
of
the fubltituted
beaft,
might
by
any meanes
be
fo
interpreted,
as
to
amount
to
the
accomplifhment
of
the
Truth
ofGod
:Death being
once denounced,
as
the reward
of
finne.
Heb.
ro.
5,6. Sacrifices
and
Offerings
for
finne
thou wouldefi
not,
in burnt
-
Offerings
and
sacrifices
for
finne
thou had/!
no
pleafure;
but
faith
our
Saviour
Lo
I
come to do
thy
will,
O
God,
v.
7.
Will
that
do it
? Yea,
it
will
affuredly,for in
the
volume
of
his
Booke
it
is
written,that
he
Auld
fo
do;
All
that
God
willed
to
be done
for the accomplifhment
of
his
Truth, was fulfilled by
Chrift,
when he came
to
give up
himfelfe
aTweet finelling Sacrifice, Ephef,
5.
2.
God then may be
true,
His
Truth
being falved
to the utmoft,
though never
any
one
of
them,
for
whom Chrift
Dyed,
doe dye
:But
this
to
the Salvation
ofBelievers,
is
on-
ly
as removens rohibens.
4.
The
difibutive7ufiice
of
God
is,
upon this
Oblation ofChrift
ingaged
upon the Covenant and compa&made with
Çhrift
as
Mediator,
to that
pur-
ifa.g3.to,u.
pofe,to
beftow on
them,
for whom heOffered and
Dyed,
all
the
good things
which he promifed him
for them,
in
and upon
the
account
of
his
undertaking
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