TheTriegboodofChrifl. life; and had therefore power to lay it downe and to take it up. And this power he had ( though he were in all points fubjea to the Law as we are) not folely by vertueof the hypoilaticall union, which did not for the time exempt him from any of the obligations of the Law, but by vertueofa particular command,confiituti- on, and defignation to that fervice of laying downe his life. This commandment have I receivedofmy Father, loh. io. i8. Laflly,it is required that this Power be ample enough tobreake thorow the fufferings he undertaketh, and to re-a ffume his life, and former condition againe. -I have power to lay it downe, andIhave power to take it op. So then the fumme of all is this ; by the moa jua,wife,and mercifull will ofGod, by his owne moil obedientand voluntary fufception,Chrifl Jefus,beingone with us in a manifold and moil fecret union, and having full power to lay downe, and to take up his life againe by fpeciall command and allowanceof his Father given him, did moil juflly,without injury to himfelfe, or difhonour to, or injuflice in his Father, filer the punifhment of their finnes, with whom he had fo neere an union, andwho could not themfelves have fuffred themwith obedience in their owne perfons, or with fo much glory to Gods juflice,mercy and wifdome. If it behere againe objeaed, that fin in the Scripture is laid to, be pardoned, which feems contrary to this pay- mentand fatisfa6lion. To anfwer this, wee mutt note, Lira, that in the rigour of the Law, .Noxafertitur ea- put, the delinquent himfelfe is in perfon to fuffer the pe- naltiedenounced, for the Law is, In the day that Thou cud} thoulbalt dye; and the foule that finneth it(hall die. Every man fhallbeare his own burthen, Gal. 6. 5. So that the Law, as it (lands in its owne rigour, cloth not admit ofany commutation,orfubilitution ofone for ma- ll other. Secondly, therefore, that another perfon fuffe- ring 449 VERSE 4,
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