4,11 ;VERSED.. Tbe PriellhoodofChrift. M mwerowas1 man towards God afurctie ready to purchafe their par- don and deliverance. Secondly , fuch' an one as fhould bee one withue in the fellowfhipofour nature, paffions, infirmities andtemptations, that fo hee might the more readily fuffer for us,who in fo many things fuffered with us ; and one with God the Father in his DivineNature, That Co by the vertueofhis fufferings and refurreftion he might bee able both to fatisfie his Mice, to juaifie our perfons, to fankifie our Nature, to perfume and purifie our fervices , to raife up our deadbodies, and toprefcnt us to his Father a glorious Church without spot or wrinkle. And both rhefe in the Vseitie°foie Perron, that foby that meanes the DivineNature might communi- cate vertue,merit,and acceptableneffe to the fufferings of thehumane; and that the dignity of that perfon might countervaile the perfonsofall other- men. And thisper- fon that perfon of the three , by whom the gloryof the mercy fhould bee themore wonderfully magnified. In one word two things are requifite to our HighPricy?. A Grace ofVM.ON to make the perfonGod and man inone Chrifi: and agrace ofVsaion, to fit himwith fuch ful- netfe ofthe Spirit-,as may enable him to the performance of fo great a worke, Efakt 1.2. By all which wee fhould learne : Firff , to adore this great myaerie ofGod manifefted in the flefb, and jutli- fled in the Spirit, the unfearchableneffe of that love, which appointed God tobee man , the Creator ofthe world to bee dcfpifed as a worme , for the falvation of fuch rebels, as might juflly have been left underchaines ofdarkneffe, and referved to the fame inevitable deflru- &ion with theDevils which fell before them.Secondly, to have aiwayes before our eyes thegreat hatefulneffe offinne , which no facrificecould have expiated but the bloodofGodhimfelfe; and thegreat feverity and inexo- rableneffe ofGods Iuffice againfi it , which no fatisfa- &ion could pacific, noobedience compenfate , but the fufforing
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