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SECT. IV. Of the Holiness of Christ's Life.

¹2. For the holiness of Christs life, the Apostle tells us, that by the obedience of one many shall be made righteous; here's the obedience of Christ, and its influence on us. 1. The obedience of Christ is that whereby he continued in all things written in the book of the Law to do them:² Observe, Christ's life was a visible commentary on Gods Law, For proof, Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the Prophets (saith Christ) but to fulfil them. And, the Father hath not left me alone (saith Christ) for I do always those things that please him. Hence Christ in Scripture is called Holy and Just, and the Holy One, Acts 2.27. The most Holy, Dan. 9.24. by his actual holiness Christ fulfilled in act every branch of the Law of God; he walked in all the Commandments of God; he performed perfectly both in thought, word, and deed whatsoever the Law of the Lord required.—I do not, cannot limit this obedience of Christ to this last year of his Ministry, for his whole life was a perpetual course of obedience, he was obedient unto death,³ saith the Apostle [Greek or Hebrew], even until his death; and yet because we read most of his holy actings this year, and that this was the year wherein both his active and passive obedience did most eminently shine, and break forth; the year wherein he drew up all the dispersions of his precepts, and cast them into actions, as into sums total; therefore now I handle it, and I shall make it out by the passages following, only in this one year. As—