The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

1. Christ gave up himself in his Active Obedience. That holy thing, his humane Nature, as soon as it came out into the World, fell a breathing forth of Holiness, burning with zeal for God, melting in compassions over Men, bowing it self down in miraculous humility, and in a rape of love doing all the Will of God, even to the last gasp upon the Cross. His thoughts were all births of Holiness, his words oracles of Truth, his works a fulfilling all Righteousness, and his meat and drink was to do his Father's Will: He ascended up to the top or pinnacle of the Moral Law in the sweetest strains of Love, and fetched about the breadth or vast compass of it in ⟨p. 202⟩the largeness of his Obedience, and passed down to the very hem or border of it in the lowness of his Humility. Rather than fail, he would be subject to his own Creature, Luk. 2. 51. pay tribute to his own Subject, Matth. 17. 27. and wash his Disciples feet with those very hands which had all the power in Heaven and Earth in them, Joh. 13. 3, 4, 5. Nay, he stooped down as low as the fringe of the Ceremonial Law; his sinless flesh was circumcised, Luke 2. 21. his holy Mother purified, Luk. 2. 22. the true Passover kept the typical one, Matth. 26. 20, 21. and so obedientially stood under his own shadow. In every respect he was obedient unto death: His Obedience was a fair Commentary on the whole Law, written in glorious Characters of Holiness and Righteousness all his life long, and at his death clasped and sealed up with his precious Blood. Thus the Mandatory part of the Law was answered; now for the Minatory.

1. Christ gave up himself in his Active Obedience. That holy thing, his humane Nature, as soon as it came out into the World, fell a breathing forth of Holiness, burning with zeal for God, melting in compassions over Men, bowing it self down in miraculous humility, and in a rape of love doing all the Will of God, even to the last gasp upon the Cross. His thoughts were all births of Holiness, his words oracles of Truth, his works a fulfilling all Righteousness, and his meat and drink was to do his Father's Will: He ascended up to the top or pinacle of the Moral Law in the sweetest strains of Love, and fetched about the breadth or vast compass of it in