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on tl..e Glory of ChriJl. I o 3 invaded our whole Natures, which internally renders all Obedience difficult umo us, and rerfe:Ct Obedience impoili.ble ; yet 2s unto oppofir;on from without in T::mptaticns, Suffi: rings, Reproaches, Contradictions, he met with more than we all. Hence is that Glorious \N ord, Althu he 'Jver(' a (f. r.·, )st he learned Obedi~nce by' the things which he ft.(- fered, Heb. 5· 8. See our Expofltion ofth.at pia.::e. Bur, · 5· THE Glory of this Obedienc;:e arifeth principally from the Confideration of the Perj'on, who thus y:elded it unto God. This was no other but .the Son of God made man ; God and man in one Perfon. He who was in Heaven. above all, Lord of-all, at the fame time lived in the \\' or.ld in a Condition of t1o Reputa-tion, and a courfe of the ftriCteft Obedience unto the whole Law of God . He unto whom Prayer was made, prayed himfelf Night and Day. He whom all the Angels ofHeaven and all Creatures worfhipped, was continually converfant in all the duties of the \Vorfhip of God. Ee who wa3 over the honfe, diJ.i-gemly obferved the meaneft office of the houfe. He thar made all m,en, in whofe hand they are all as Clay in the hand of the Potter, obferved amongft them the ftri~ Rul~s of ~fuftice in giving unro every one his due~ ;md of Chtlr-ity, in giving goc d things that were not fo due. This is th«t which renders the Obedience of Chrift in the Difcharge of his Office, both Myfterious and glorious. . 2. AGAIN, TheGlory of Chriil: is propofed nnto ns in what he Ji4f~red in the Difcharge of the Office which he had undertaken. There belonged H 4 in...

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