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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 9
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
They take him for a Servant, that oweth Service and Obedience. And Christ as Man owed Obedience to his Father on two accounts;
1. As a reasonable Creature to his Maker.
2. As one that had by voluntary Sponsion undertaken it. I might add,
3. As the special Law of Mediation was imposed on him, or given him, as Man, by which it was made his special duty to die for Man, &c. He saith when he cometh into the world, Here I am to do thy Will, O God; yea, thy Law is in my heart. Did he not take upon him the form of a servant? Phil. 2. 7. which was not a show of that which is not, but of that which is. Is he not called God's righteous Servant justifying many, Isa. 53. 11. Doth not God oft call him, My Servant, Isa. 49. 6