Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

2. That what ever Christ did as Mediator, He did it for them §. 15 whose Mediator He was, or in whose stead, and for whose good, He executed the Office of a Mediator before God: This the Holy Ghost witnesseth, Rom. 8. 3. What the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us. because that we could not in that condition of weakness, whereinto we are cast by sin, come to God and be freed from condemnation by the Law; God sent Christ, as a Mediator to doc and suffer whatever the Law required at our hands, for that end and purpose, that we might not be condemned but accepted of God. It was all to this end, that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us: that is, which the Law required of us, consisting in duties of obedience, this Christ performed for us. This expression of the Apostle, God sending his own Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemning sin in the flesh: if you will add to it, that of Gal: 4. 4. that he was so sent forth, as that he was [Greek or Hebrew], made under the Law, that is, obnoxious to it, to yield all the obedience that it doth require, comprises the whole of what Christ did or suffered; and all this the Holy Ghost tells us, was for us, v. 4.

2. That what ever Christ did as Mediator, He did it for them §. 15 whose Mediator He was, or in whose stead, and for whose good, He executed the Office of a Mediator before God: This the Holy Ghost witnesseth, Rom. 8. 3. What the Law could not doe, in that it was weake through the flesh, God sending his own Son, in the likenesse of sinfull flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousnesse of the Law might be fulfilled in us. because that we could not in that condition of weaknesse, whereinto we are cast by sinne, come to God and be freed from condemnation by the Law; God sent Christ, as a Mediator to doc and suffer whatever the Law required at our hands, for that end and purpose, that we might not be condemned but accepted of God. It was all to this end, that the Righteousnesse of the Law might be fulfilled in us: that is, which the Law required of us, consisting in duties of obedience, this Christ performed for us. This expression of the Apostle, God sending his own Sonne, in the likenesse of sinfull flesh, and for sinne condemning sinne in the flesh: if you will adde to it, that of Gal: 4. 4. that he was so sent forth, as that he was , made under the Law, that is, obnoxious to it, to yeeld all the obedience that it doth require, comprizes the whole of what Christ did or suffered; and all this the Holy Ghost tells us, was for us, v. 4.