262 The îature of Chris Sureti f h p. non vero fcerdotem vocet ? Cur non dixerit tanto preflantioris foederis faïtus efi fcerdos Jefus ? hoc enim plane requirerc vide - tur totus orations contextos. Credibile eft in voce fpononis fa- cerdotium quoq; Chrifli intelligi. Sponforis enim non 'eV alien nomine quipfiam pronrittere, & frdem foam pro alio interponere; fed etiam, (ita res ferat, alterius nomine id quod f opondit pre - are. In -rebus quidem humanis, f id non pullet is pro quo honf r fdejuf /t ; hic vero propter centrariam caufam (nam prior hic locum habere non poteft) nempe quatenus ille pro quo fopon- dit Chrifius per ipfum Chrif%um promif fua nobis exhibit; qua in re precipue Chrifti facerdotium continetur. Anf. (ï) It may indeed Teem firange unto any one who imagineth Chrifi to be fuch a furety as he doth, why the Apo - íhe íhould fo call him, and fo introduce him in the Deferip- tion of his Priefily Office, as that which belongeth there- unto. But grant what is the proper Work and Duty of a furety, and who the Lord kits was a furety for, and it is evident that nothing more proper or pertinent could be men- tioned by him, when he was in the Declaration of that Office. (2) He confetfeth that by his Expofition of this firretifhip of Chrifl, as making him a furety for God, he con - tradiCteth the nature and only notion of a furety among men. For fuch a one he acknowledgeth doth nothing but in the defclt and unability of them for whom he is ingaged, and Both undertake. He is to pay that which they owe, and to do what is to be done by them, which they cannot perform. And if this be not the notion of a furety in this place, the Apoftle makes ufe of a word no where elfe ufed in the whole Scri- pture, to teach us that which it doth never fignifie among men, which is improbable and abfurd. For the foie Reafon why he did make ufe of it was, that from the nature and no- tion of it amongft men in other cafes, we may underftand the fignification of it ; what he intends by it, and what under that name he afcribes unto the Lord jails. (3) He bath rio way
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