3 68 The Imputation of the obedience of Chri. performance and accomplifhment, are they the alts of the Perfon. So the Alts of Chrift in his Mediation, as to their iven,41.-ru or immediate cperation,were the adings of his diftind Natures ; fome of the Divine,and fome of the Humane,imme- diately. But as unto their ago 4tio.,ha,u, and the perfecting effi- cacy of there, they were the Ads of his whole Perlon : His Xis who was that Perlon, and whofe Power of Operation was a property of his Perlon. Wherefore the Obedience of Chrift which we plead to have been for us, was the Obedience of the son of God; but the son of God was never abfolutely made , vóp.ov'under the Law, nor could be formally ob- liged thereby. He was indeed, as the Apoftle witneffeth, made fo in his Humane Nature, wherein he performed this Obedience, made of a Woman, made under the Law, Gal.4.¢. He was fo far forth made under the Law, as he was made of a Woman. For in his Perron he abode Lord of the Sabbath, Mark2. 28. And therefore of the whole Law. But the O- bedience it felf, was the Obedience of that Perfon, who never was, nor ever could abfolutely be made under the Law,in his whole Perfon. For the Divine Nature cannot be fubjeeted unto an outward work ofits own,fuch as the Law is;nor can it have an Authoritative commanding power over it, as it muff have, if it were made vs,uov under the Law, Thus the Apoftle argues, That Levi paid Tithes in Abraham, becaufe he was then in his Loyns, when Abraham himfelf paid Tithes unto Melchifedec. Heb. 7. And thence he proves, That he was in- ferior unto the Lord Chrift, of whom Melchifedec was a Type. But may it not thereon be replied , that then no lefs the Lord Chrift was in the Loyns of Abraham then Levi: For verily, as the fame Apoftle fpeaks, he took on him the seed of Abraham. It is true therefore, that he was fo in refpe& of his Humane Nature ; but as he was typed and reprefented by Melchifedec in his whole Perfon, without Father, without Mo- ther, without Genealogy, without beginning of Days or End of Life :
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