Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

3. HIS Obedience being absolutely universal, and absolutely perfect, was the great Representative of the Holiness of God in the Law. It was represented glorious when the Ten Words were written by the Finger of God in Tables of Stone: It appears yet more eminently in the Spiritual Transcription of it in the Hearts of Believers: But absolutely and perfectly it is exemplified only in the Holiness and Obedience of Christ, which answered it unto the utmost. And this is no small Part of his Glory in Obedience, that the Holiness of God in the Law was therein, and therein alone in that one Instance, as unto human Nature, fully represented.

4. HE wrought out this Obedience against all Difficulties and Oppressions. For although he was absolutely free from that Disorder which in us hath invaded our whole Natures, which internally renders all Obedience difficult unto us, and perfect Obedience impossible; yet as unto Opposition from without in Temptations, Sufferings, Reproaches, Contradictions, he met with more than we all. Hence is that glorious Word, Although he were a Son, yet he learned Obedience by the things which be suffered, Heb. 5. 8. See our Exposition of that place. But,

5. THE Glory of this Obedience ariseth principally from the Consideration of the Person, who thus yielded it unto God. This was no other but the Son of God made Man; God and Man in one Person. He who was in Heaven, above all, Lord of all, at the same time lived in the World in a Condition of no Reputation, and a Course of the strictest Obedience unto the whole Law of God. He unto whom Prayer was made, prayed himself Night and Day. He whom all the Angels of ⟨p. 86⟩