A discourse of the saving grace of God

(17.) It tends to destroy the Mediation of Christ: That liberty, which they make essential to Mans Will, makes Christ uncapable of being the Mediator between God and Man, and so tends to ruin all the concerns of God and Man in Christs Mediation. For, either the Will of Christ was undeclinably fixed upon that which is Good and Holy, so that it could not to Disobedience and Wickedness: And if so, it had not that indifferency to good and evil, in which they place the liberty of Mans Will, and count it essential thereto, so that it cannot be a humane Will without it; and then Christ, wanting that which is essential to humane Nature, was not indeed a Man, nor did assume our Nature; consequently could not be the Mediator between God and Man, being not the Man Christ Jesus.

(17.) It tends to destroy the Mediation of Christ: That liberty, which they make essential to Mans Will, makes Christ uncapable of being the Mediator between God and Man, and so tends to ruine all the concerns of God and Man in Christs Mediation. For, either the Will of Christ was undeclinably fixed upon that which is Good and Holy, so that it could not to Disobedience and Wickedness: And if so, it had not that indifferency to good and evil, in which they place the liberty of Mans Will, and count it essential thereto, so that it cannot be a humane Will without it; and then Christ, wanting that which is essential to humane Nature, was not indeed a Man, nor did assume our Nature; consequently could not be the Mediator between God and Man, being not the Man Christ Jesus.

Or, if his Will was not undeclinably fixed on that which was good, but left ⟨p. 88⟩in a state of indifferency to that or the contrary; so that he might have observed his Fathers Will, or not observed it; might have loved him, or not loved him; might hav• fulfilled all righteousness, or not fulfilled it: And if he might have sinned, or not sinned, then he was not God; for he that is God cannot sin.