under the Law, Declared andVindicated. 3 7 Il the Rate and condition wherein he yielded it, was not for himfelf, but for the Church , which was obliged unto per - feet Obedience, but was not able to accompli(h it. That this was his foie End and Defign in it, is a Fundamental Article, if I miftake not , of the Creed of moft Chriftians in the World ; and to deny it, doth confequentially overthrow all the Grace and Love both of the Father, and Son in his Mediation. It is laid, That this Obedience was neceffary as a ,,Qu_alifica- tien of his Perfon, that he might be meet to be a Mediator for us ; and therefore was for himfelf. It belongs unto the neceffary conftitution of his Perfon, with refpect unto his Mediatory Work : But this I poftively deny. The Lord Chrift was e- very way meet for the whole Work of Mediation, by the ineffable union of the Humane Nature with the Divine, which exalted it in Dignity, Honor, and Worth, above any thing, or all things that infued thereon. For hereby he became in his whole Perlon the object of all Divine Worfhip and Honor for when he brings the firfi begotten into the World, he faith, And let all the Angels of God worfhip him. Again, That which is an effes of the Perfon of the Mediator as conftituted fuch, is not a qualification neceffary unto its conftitution i that is,what he did as Mediator, did not concur to the making of him meet fo to be. But of this Nature was all the Obedi- ence which he yielded unto the Law, for as fuch, It became him tofull all Righteoufnefs. Whereas therefore he was neither made Man, nor of the Pofterity of Abraham for himfelf, but for the Church, name- ly, to become thereby the Sorely of the Covenant, and Repre- fentative of the whole, his obedience as a Man unto the Law in general, and as a Son ctif Abraham unto the Law of Mofes, was for us, and not for himfelf; fo defigned, fo per- formed, and without a refpeét unto the Church, was of no ufe unto himfelf. He was born to us, and given to us, lived for Bbb 2 us,
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