The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

This was John Baptists case, he was under the vindictive sentence of the Law, though the Holy Ghost soon took possession of him, b• the coming of Jesus unto him, and sanctified him, by uniting him unto Jesus Christ, and brought him into a state of grace and salvation by Jesus Christ, thus it was with John, but it was far otherwise with Jesus Christ, for he was without sin, Heb. 4.15. though in other things he was a man like unto us, yet in this point there was a great difference, he was without sin.

This was John Baptists case, he was under the vindictive sentence of the Law, though the Holy Ghost soon took posse•sion of him, b• the coming of Jesus unto him, and sanctified him, by uniting him unto Jesus Christ, and brought him into a state of grace and salvation by Jesus Christ, thus it was with John, but it was far otherwise with Jesus Christ, for he was without sin, Heb. 4.15. though in other things he was a man like unto us, yet in this point there was a great di•ference, he was without sin.

2. John Baptist was begotten after the ordinary way of Generation of all mankind that were in the loins of Adam, by Zechariah and Elizabeth. But Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost in the womb of a Virgin, and therefore that holy thing that was born of her is called the Son of God. He was made under the Law, Gal. 4.4. as a rule of the life of man, but the vindictive justice of the Law had nothing to say unto him, because he had no sin, vindictive justice had no more to say to Jesus then it had to say to Adam at his first Creation. Adam was created under the Law as a rule of life, but vindictive justice had nothing to say unto him, until he had sinned; but so soon as he had sinned, then the Law condemned him, and punished him. Jesus was in the state of innocent Adam, and so under the Law as a rule of life. but not in the state of fallen Adam, to be under sin and vindictive justice.