370 The Imputation o f the obedience of Chri. 2. As our Lord Jefus Chrift owed not in his own Perin this Obedience for himfelf, by venue of any Authority or Power that the Law had over him, fo he defigned and intended it not for himfelf, but for us. This added unto the former confedera- tion, gives full evidence unto the Truth pleaded for For if he was not obliged unto it for himfelf,his Perlon that yielded ir, not being under the Law ; and if he intended it not for himfelf, then it muff be for us, or be ufelefs : It was in our Humane Nature, that he performed all this Obedience. Now the fufception of our Nature, was a voluntary Aft of his own, with reference unto fome end and purpofe; and that which was the end of the Afjurnption of our Nature, was in like manner the End of all that he did therein. Now it was for go, and not for himfelf, that he affumed our nature ; nor was any thing added unto him thereby : Wherefore in the iffue of his Work, he propofeth this only unto himfelf, That he may be glorified with that Glory which he had with the Fa- ther, before the World was, by the removal of that veil which was put upon it in his Exinanition. But that it was for us, That he affumed our nature, is the foundation of Chritlian Religion; as it is afferted by the Apofile, Heb. 2. 14. Phi/.2. 5, 6, 7, 8. Some of the Antient schoolmen difputed; That the Son of God lhould have been incarnate, although Man had, not finned and fallen. The fame opinion was fiercely purfued by ofiander as I have elfwhere declared ; but none of them once imagined, that he fhould have been fo made Man, as to be made under the Law, and be obliged thereby unto that Obedience which now he hath performed : But they judged that immediately he was to have been a Glorious Head unto the whole Creation. For it is a common notion and prefump- tion of all Chriflians , but only fuch as will facrifice fuch notions unto their own private conceptions , That the Obe- dience which Chrifi yielded unto the Law on the Earth, in the
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