The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Socinus, I confess, evades the force of this Argument, by denying the Divine Person of Christ. But in this Disputation I take that for granted, as having proved it elsewhere, beyond what any of his followers are able to contradict. And if we may not build on Truths by him denied, we shall scarce have any one principle of Evangelical Truth left us to prove any thing from. However, I intend them only at present, who concur with him in the matter under debate, but renounce his opinion concerning the Person of Christ.

Socinus, I confess, evades the force of this Argument, by denying the Divine Person of Christ. But in this Disputation I take that for granted, as having proved it elswhere, beyond what any of his followers are able to contradict. And if we may not build on Truths by him denied, we shall scarce have any one principle of Evangelical Truth left us to prove any thing from. However, I intend them only at present, who concur with him in the matter under debate, but renounce his opinion concerning the Person of Christ.

2. As our Lord Jesus Christ owed not in his own Person this Obedience for himself, by virtue of any Authority or Power that the Law had over him, so he designed and intended it not for himself, but for us. This added unto the former consideration, gives full evidence unto the Truth pleaded for: For if he was not obliged unto it for himself, his Person that yielded it, not being under the Law; and if he intended it not for himself, then it must be for us, or be useless: It was in our Humane Nature, that he performed all this Obedience. Now the susception of our Nature, was a voluntary Act of his own, with reference unto some end and purpose; and that which was the end of the Assumption of our Nature, was in like manner the End of all that he did therein. Now it was for us, and not for himself, that he assumed our nature; nor was any thing added unto him thereby: Wherefore in the issue of his Work, he proposeth this only unto himself, That he may be glorified with that Glory which he had with the Father, before the World was, by the removal of that veil which was put upon it in his Exinanition. But that it was for us, That he assumed our nature, is the foundation of Christian Religion; as it is asserted by the Apostle,