unto the Larn, Declared andVindicated. 391 the principal Cauf of the whole, and as that without which no imputation of Obedience could have juílified us; for the Penalty of the Law was indifpenfibly to be undergone. (2.) It is fo ,sr ovnlvetxv; not excluwely unto all Obedience whereof mention is made in other Places, but as that where- unto it is infeparably conJoyned , Chriflus in vita pavan habuit a1 ionem ; in morte pall-jai/ern al`"íiva n fuflinuit 5 duns falutem operaretur in medio terre. Bernard. And fo it is allo afcribed unto his R.efurrefion UT vI'e tv with refpeït unto Evidence and Mani fellation. But the Death of Chrift exclas lively as unto his Obedience is no where afferted as the Caufe of eternal life, comprizing that exceeding Weight of Glory wherewith it is accompanied. Hitherto we have treated of and Vindicated the Imputa- tion of the AEtive Obedience of Chrift unto us , as the Truth of it was deduced from the preceding Argument about the Obligation of the Law of Creation. I (hall now briefly confirm it with other Reafons and Teftimonies. t. That which Chrifi the Mediator and surety of the Cove- nant, did do in Obedience unto God , in the difeharge and Per- formance of his Office, that he did for us, and that is imputed unto us. This hath been proved already, and it hath too great an Evidence of Truth to be denied. He was born to us, given to us. Ifa. 9. 6. For what the Law could not do, in that it was weal through the flefh, God fending his own soya in the lil¿enefs of (info! flefh , and for fn, condemned fat in the flefh, that thi Bighteoufnefs of the Law might be fu fled in us, Rom. 8. 3, 4. Whatever is fpoken of the Grace, Love and Purpole of God in fending or giving his Son, or of the Love, Grace and Condelcention of the Son in coming and undertaking of the Work of Redemption deigned unto him, or of the Office it felf of a Mediator or Surety , gives Tefti- mony unto this Affertion.Yea,it is the Fundamental Principle of the Gofpel, and of the Faith of all that truly believe.. As,
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