The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

but as he was typed and represented by Melchizedek in his whole Person, without Father, without Mother, without Genealogy, without beginning of Days or End of ⟨p. 369⟩Life: So he was not absolutely in Abraham's Loins, and was exempted from being tithed in him. Wherefore the Obedience whereof we treat, being not the Obedience of the Humane Nature abstractedly, however performed in and by the Humane Nature, but the Obedience of the Person of the Son of God, however the Humane Nature was subject to the Law, (in what Sense, and unto what Ends shall be declared afterwards) it was not for himself, nor could be for himself, because his whole Person was not obliged thereunto. It is therefore a fond thing to compare the Obedience of Christ, with that of any other Man, whose whole person is under the Law. For although that may not be for himself and others, (which yet we shall show that in some cases it may;) yet this may, yea must be for others, and not for himself. This then we must strictly hold unto. If the Obedience that Christ yielded unto the Law were for himself, whereas it was the Act of his Person, his whole Person, and the Divine Nature therein, were made under the Law, which cannot be. For although it is acknowledged, that in the Ordination of God, his Exinanition was to precede his Glorious Majestical Exaltation, as the Scripture witnesseth. Phil. 2.9. Luk. 24.26. Rom. 14.9. yet absolutely his Glory was an immediate consequent of the Hypostatical Union. Heb. 1.6. Matth. 2.11.

but as he was typed and represented by Melchisedec in his whole Person, without Father, without Mother, without Genealogy, without beginning of Days or End of ⟨p. 369⟩Life: So he was not absolutely in Abrahams Loyns, and was exempted from being tithed in him. Wherefore the Obedience whereof we treat, being not the Obedience of the Humane Nature abstractedly, however performed in and by the Humane Nature, but the Obedience of the Person of the Son of God, however the Humane Nature was subject to the Law, (in what Sense, and unto what Ends shall be declared afterwards) it was not for himself, nor could be for himself, because his whole Person was not obliged thereunto. It is therefore a fond thing to compare the Obedience of Christ, with that of any other Man, whose whole person is under the Law. For although that may not be for himself and others, (which yet we shall shew that in some cases it may;) yet this may, yea must be for others, and not for himself. This then we must strictly hold unto. If the Obedience that Christ yielded unto the Law were for himself, whereas it was the Act of his Person, his whole Person, and the Divine Nature therein, were made under the Law, which cannot be. For although it is acknowledged, that in the Ordination of God, his Exinanition was to precede his Glorious Majestical Exaltation, as the Scripture witnesseth.