314 Of:COMM 'UN ION tit a.) Grace of juftification or acceptation with God, which snakes a rela- tive change in us, as a fate and condition. ä.) Grace of fan&ificarión or holinefs before God, which makes a real change in us, as to principle and operation. 3.) Grace of privilege, which is mixed, as we fhall thew, if I go forth to the handling thereof. Now that we have communion with Chrift in this purchafed grace, is evident on this tingle confideration; that there is almoft nothing that Chrift hath done, which is a fpring of that grace whereof we fpeak, but we are faid to do it with him. We arecrucified with him, Gal. ii. 20. we are dead with him, 2 Tim. ii. i r. Col. iii. 3. and buried with him, Rom. vi. 4. Col. ii. 12. we are quickened together with him, Col. ii. 13. rifen with him, Col. iii. 1. He bath quickened us together with Chrifl and bath raifed us up together, and made us fit together in heavenlyplaces, Ephef. ii. 5, 6. In the aft ogs of Chrift, there is by virtue of the compaft between him as mediator and the father, fach an affured foundation laid of thecommunica- tion of the fruits of thofe ahings, unto thofe in whofe fiend he performed them, that they are faid, in the participationof thofe fruits, to have done the fain things with him. The life and powerof which truth, we may have occafion hereafter to inquire into. (r.) The firft fountain and fpring of this grace, wherein we have our communion withChriff, is firlt to be confidered, and that is the obedience of his life concerning which it mull be declared. [r.] What it is that is intended thereby ; and wherein it confafteth. [2.]. What influence it hath into thegrace, whereof we fpeak. To the handlingof this, I fhall only prensile this obfervation, namely; that in the order of procurement, the life of Chrift (as was neceffary) pre- cedeth his death, and therefore we fhall handle it in the firffplace, but in the order of application, the benefits of lais death are bellowed on us an- tecedently, in the nature of the things themfelves, unto thofe of his life; as will appear, and that neceffarily from the Irate and condition wherein we are. [1.] jay the obedience of the life of Chrift, 'intend the univerfal con- formity:of the Lord Jefus Chrift, as he was, or is in his being mediator, to the whole will of God ; and lais compleat aflual fulfillingof the whole of every law of God, or doing of all, that God in them required. He might have been perfeftly holy by obedience to the law of creation, the moral law, as the angels were, neither could any moreas a man walking with God be required of him. (- But he fubmitted himfelf alfo to every law or ordinance that was introduced upon the occafion of fin, which on his - own account he could not be fubjeft to; it becoming him to fulfil all righte- oufnefs, Matth. iii. 15. as he fpeke in reference to a newly inftituted ce- remony. That obedience is properly afcribed unto Jefus Chrift, as mediator, the fcripture is witnefs, both as to -naine and thing, Heb. v. 8. Though be t Vox hocAragon/re, Iadlrrme fumirur, in ur frgnificer non modo Ti róprp v, fed & quicquid Winn oqui argue boni haber rarionem, nam lex Mofo de hoc baprilino nihit profcripferar, Grot. Per daaare,,,, Chriflus hic non defignar juftiriam legalem, fed in in logoi- ücear perfonalem t et enter., perfonæ, &ni o t5nor muneri, Wale. Eß,a,lefa d 4 irinnorrr, onwean ainnbrarOJognr p 14174.4 xrtiar taon, it o,n ípo w,' F0 ,, k4a&' P 3f YrPa Clem. were
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