into the Lam, Declared and /7 indicated. 367 with this Reafon, Becar fe if it were otherwife, then he might, if he would, have neglec`led the whole Law of God, and have broken it at his pleafure. For he forgot to_confider, That if he were not obliged unto it upon his own account, but was fo on ours, whole caute he had undertaken, the obligation on him unto molt perfect obedience, was equal to what it would have been, had he been originally obliged on his own account. However hence he infers, that what he did, could not be for us, becaufe it was fo for himfelf, no more then what any other man is bound to do in a way of duty for himfelf, can be e.fleemed to have been done_ alfo for another. For he will allow of none of thofe conliderations of the Perfon of Chrift which makes what he did and fuffered, of another nature a'nd efficacy, then what can be done or fuffered by any other Man. All that he adds, in the procefs of his difcourfe, is, That what ever Chrift did that was not required by the Lam in general, was upon the efpeoial command of God, and fo done for himfe f; whence it cannot be imputed unto us. And hereby he excludes the Church from any benefit by the Mediation of Chrift, but only what confifts in his Doctrine, Example, and the Exercife of his Power in Heaven for our good , which was the thing that he aimed at : But we (hall confider thofe alfo which make ufe of his Arguments, though not as yet openly unto all his Ends. To clear the Truth herein, the things infuing mutt be ob- ferved. r. The Obedience we treat of, was the Obedience of Chrift the Mediator. But the Obedience of Chrift as the Me- diator of the Covenant, was the Obedience of his Perfon For God redeemed his Church with his own Blood, Ails 20. 28, It was performed in the Humane Nature, but the Perfon of Chrift was he that performed it. As in the Perron of a Man, force of his ads, 2s to the immediate principle of operation, are acts of the Body, and forne are fa of the soul; yet in their performance
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