The Fountain of Life Opened

Secondly, There must be also an effective perfection, or a perfection of working, and obeying, before it could be said, it is finished. This Christ had; for he continued in all things, written in the Law, to do them. He fulfilled all righteousness, as it behoved him to do. Matth. 3.15. He did all that was required to be done. And suffered all that was requisite to be suffered. He did and suffered all that was commanded, or threatened; in such perfection of obedience, both active and passive, that the pure eye of divine Justice could not find a flaw in it. And so finished the work his Father gave him to do. And this work finished by our Lord Jesus Christ, was both a necessary, difficult, and precious work.

Secondly, There must be also an effective perfection, or a perfection of working, and obeying, before it could be said, it is finished. This Christ had; for he continued in all things, written in the Law, to do them. He fulfilled all righteousness, as it behoved him to do. Matth. 3.15. He did all that was required to be done. And suffered all that was requisite to be suffer•d. He did and suffered all that was commanded, or threatned; in such perfection of obedience, both active and passive, that the pure eye of divine Justice could not find a flaw in it. And so finished the work his Father gave him to do. And this work finished by our Lord Jesus Christ, was both a necessary, difficult, and pretious work.

First, It was a necessary work, which Christ finished upon the Cross. Necessary upon a threefold account.

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