4.4.S ThePriejlhoodofChrift. eipoiMairmlawmIMM 0111 111.11 VE R S E 4. ry as betweene a man and his goods, and fo wee finde that aman was to or no beaii for a finne offeringbut that which was his owne,Levit. 5. 6,7. Now in all thefe refpe&s there was in fame manner conjunaion be- . % tweene us and Chria, He converted amongamen, and was a member ofthat Tribeand fociety arnone whom he lived, and thereforewas together with them under that Romane yoke which was then upon the people, and in that relation paid tribute unto (War : hee had the natureand feed of man and fowas fubjea to all hu- mane and natural' infirmities without finne : Hee was myflically married untohisChurch, and therefore was anfwerable for the debts and mifdemeanours of the Church. He entred into covenant, and became furetic for man, and therefore was liable to mansengagements. Lay, hee became the poffeflion, in Tome fort, ofhis Church :whence it is that we are faid to receive him,and to have him, i Joh.5.110 not by way ofDominion (for, fo weare his, i Cor. 6.19.) but by way of communion and propriety ; and therefore though wee cannot offer him up unto God in facrifice for our finnes, yetwe may inour faith and prayers (hewhim untohis Father, and hold himup as our owne armour and fence againa the wrath ofGod, Rom.T3.14. Secondly, there is required in the innocent perfon fuf- fering,that he have afi:eandfsilldornixionover that from which hee parteth, in his fuffering for another. As in furetifhip, a manbath free dominion over his money, and therefore in that refpe& he may engage himfelfe to pay doodler mans debt ; but he hath not a free dominion over himfelfeor his owne life, and therefore he maynot part with a member ofhis owne in commutation for an- others,(as Zaletscimdid for his fonne) nor be 'Ar74,2ta, to lay dovvnehis ovine life for the deliveringof another fromdeath, except in fuck cafes as theWordofGod li- miteth andalloweth. But Chrifl was Lordof his ovvne life,
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