CHAP.2.14. cí1Comntentaraevponthe Soil Paul,all andmany,areall one. Vfe.IfChrifl gave himfelfe furze, then fufferedhe not for his owne a. e fuffered finnes: for he knewnofrnne, beeing moll holy inhis conception , with- notforhisewn out original! finne ; according to the wordof the Angel, Luk.i.35. fin,forhewas That holy thing that /ball beeborne ofthee ; as alto moll innocent in all his giuen ten vs. life, for no guile was found in his mouth , and who could accule himof t:nne ? of which iunocencie not only his friends, the Prophets , and A- poflles, but his gteatefl foes allo byGods prouidencebecame witneflés. Pilates wife willed her husband tohaue nothing to doe with that deft mans Pilate himfelfe confeffed ,hefonndnofault in him: The Centuri- on laid, furely this man was the SonneofGod. Caiphas laid , that one man muft die,<not for himlcite hut) for ehepeople ; the theefe on the croffe, this man bathdone nothing am;re: nay ludas hoard fe cryed our, that hehad betrayed innocent blood: not to ipeake any thing of the many confeffìons of the deuills th'emfelues,that hewas iheSonneof the moll high. The Paptfls draw neerc veto that Iewifh opinion, which the ChriRusprrter Prophet mentioneth, Ifay 5;.4. Wee indged faim plagued anditniten of ca bona ipx fuislaboubus God, namely, forhisowne finnes; but 'nee was wounded for our tranf pepericnpbis, re ions,andbroen orourini cities for they hold that aria b y his snerweeriam g_ ! f 9 y , } ilstcorpons fettering merited lomething for himfelfe. Which if it had beene fo, g' ° "a"'s"no. then was the Apofllemif}akenin laying that the lull fuffered for the minis ezalratio }' . namóellar.l,s, vniuft; whereas he fhould haue Paid, the lull fuffered both for the lull do Chro.cap.y, andvniull. Befides this cuing of himfelfe withftandeth any meri- t.Yu.;.tä, s a a tingfor himfelfe : for if it was neceffary that he fhould merit for him- fel te, his obedience could not be voluntary. And what an abfurd thing is it,to thinke that it was neceffarie for Chral beeing God , to defcend from heauen, become man , and condefcend to moll bitter death, the graueeand forrowes ofhell for his owne fake ? For what could he merit whichhe had not from his firli conception,or which was not due to his manhood from that conception , by reafonofthe vnionof it with the word, the fecond perfon ? what could it want , which had luch infepa- rable fellowfhip with the deine it felfc ? who in the midfl ofhis abate- ment, his flefh beeing the Beth of the word,couldnot want any glory, although he was pleafed tohide it for the time of his pailron. Lathy, the humane natureofChrifl is acreature, and can therefore merit no-. thingof the creator, to whom all obedience is debt. 2. it was guided and mooned wholly by the diuine, and in that regard could not merit a- ny thing for it felfe: for ameritorious worke mud be in the owne power of the workcr,andby himfelfe meerely performed:nay,his merit for vs dependeth not vpon his nature,but vpon his perfon , in which bothhis natures concurre to theworke andefficacieofthe fame. Secondly,
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