Light for them that sit in darkness, or, A discourse of Jesus Christ, and…

For as I told you before, Christ stood a Common Person, presenting in himself the whole Lump of the promised Seed, or the Children of the Promise; wherefore he comes under the Law for them, takes upon him to do what the Law required of them, takes upon him to do it for them.

He began therefore at the first Tittle of the Law, and going in mans Flesh, for man, through the Law, He becomes the End of the Law for righteousness, for every one that believeth. The END of the Law, what is the End of the Law, but perfect and sinless Obedience? that is the End of the Law both with respect to its Nature, and the Cause of its being imposed. God gave the Law, that complete Righteousness should by that be found upon men, but because sin was got into man's Flesh, therefore this Righteousness, by us, could not be completed: Now comes Christ the Lord into the World, clothes himself with the Children's Flesh, addresseth himself to the Work of their Redemption, is made under the Law; and going through every part of the Law without Sin, he becometh the End of the Law for Justifying Righteousness to every one that believeth, Rom. 10. 4. For he obeyed not the Law for himself, he needed no obedience thereto: 'Twas we that needed obedience, 'twas ⟨p. 59⟩we that wanted to answer the Law, we wanted it but could not obtain it, because then the Law was weak through the Flesh; therefore God sent his own Son, and he did our duty for us, even to become the End of the Law to every one that believeth: In this therefore Christ laboured for us, he was made under the Law to redeem. Therefore, as I said before, It behoved him to be sinless, because the Law binds over to answer for sin at the Bar of the Judgment of God. Therefore did his God-Head assume our humane Flesh, in a clean and spotless way that he might come under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law.

He began therefore at the first Tittle of the Law, and going in mans Flesh, for man, through the Law, He becomes the End of the Law for righteousness, for every one that believeth. The END of the Law, what is the End of the Law, but perfect and sinless Obedience? that is the End of the Law both with respect to its Nature, and the Cause of its being imposed. God gave the Law, that compleat Righteousness should by that be found upon men, but because sin was got into man's Flesh, therefore this Righteousness, by us, could not be compleated: Now comes Christ the Lord into the World, clothes himself with the Children's Flesh, addresseth himself to the Work of their Redemption, is made under the Law; and going through every part of the Law without Sin, he becometh the End of the Law for Justifying Righteousness to every one that believeth,