3. Because the Price of our Redemption is a thing of superexcellent fullness and superimaginable glory, redeeming Captives in a way completive and perfective of the Law broken by them. Do we make void the Law by Faith, or by its Object our Redeemer and Redemption? Nay, we establish the Law, Rom. 3. 31. When Man was in Innocency, the Royal Law sate in Glory commanding upon its Throne, holding forth in its right hand a Crown of Life in the Promise, and in its left a Sword of Vengeance in the Threatening: But when Monstrous Sin entered into the World, the very Throne of the Law seemed to shake, and the Crown in its right hand to wither, only the Sword was glittering and fiery in the left, the Minatory part of the Law stood fast captivating and cursing the ⟨p. 220⟩Sinner; but the Mandatory and Promissory parts thereof fell a trembling and staggering, as if their natural and primary End, viz. perfect Obedience and all the ensuing Bliss were utterly lost. Now Jesus Christ our wonderful Redeemer redeemed us in such a way as that he established the Law in every respect; by his Active Obedience he fastened and new-pinned the very Throne of the Law, and made the old Promise to bud again with Life; and in his Passive Obedience the fiery Sword of God's wrath did awake against him, Zach. 13. 7. and smote and wounded him for our iniquities; he paid down his humane Nature in doing and suffering, and what could the Law desire of him more? Thus Jesus Christ became the end, the fullness, the perfection of the Law, Rom. 10. 4. But if the Passive Obedience of Christ be only the Price, then indeed the Curse or Wrath, which is in the left hand of the Law, and which comes accidentally by sin, is satisfied: But where is the primary and natural end of the Law? Where is that perfect Obedience which is in the right hand and right eye of the Law? You'll say, 'tis in the Person of Christ our Redeemer: But how is it there? the Apostle ⟨p. 221⟩says, that Christ is the end of the Law to the believer; now if it be there only personally as for himself, then as to that he is the end of the Law only for himself; but if it be there also fide jussorially as for us, then 'tis part of the Price, and so he is the end of the Law to us also. But you'll reply, that though Christ's Active Obedience be no part of the Price, yet his Passive suffices;
3. Because the Price of our Redemption is a thing of superexcellent fulness and superimaginable glory, redeeming Captives in a way completive and perfective of the Law broken by them. Do we make void the Law by Faith, or by its Object our Redeemer and Redemption? Nay, we establish the Law, Rom. 3. 31. When Man was in Innocency, the Royal Law sate in Glory commanding upon its Throne, holding forth in its right hand a Crown of Life in the Promise, and in its left a Sword of Vengeance in the Threatning: But when Monstrous Sin entred into the World, the very Throne of the Law seemed to shake, and the Crown in its right hand to wither, only the Sword was glittering and fiery in the left, the Minatory part of the Law stood fast captivating and cursing the ⟨p. 220⟩Sinner; but the Mandatory and Promissory parts thereof fell a trembling and staggering, as if their natural and primary End, viz. perfect Obedience and all the ensuing Bliss were utterly lost. Now Jesus Christ our wonderful Redeemer redeemed us in such a way as that he established the Law in every respect; by his Active Obedience he fastened and newpinned the very Throne of the Law, and made the old Promise to bud again with Life; and in his Passive Obedience the fiery Sword of God's wrath did awake against him, Zach. 13. 7. and smote and wounded him for our iniquities; he paid down his humane Nature in doing and suffering, and what could the Law desire of him more? Thus Jesus Christ became the end, the fulness, the perfection of the Law, Rom. 10. 4. But if the Passive Obedience of Christ be only the Price, then indeed the Curse or Wrath, which is in the left hand of the Law, and which comes accidentally by sin, is satisfied: But where is the primary and natural end of the Law? Where is that perfect Obedience which is in the right hand and right eye of the Law? You'l say, 'tis in the Person of Christ our Redeemer: But how is it there? the Apostle ⟨p. 221⟩says, that Christ is the end of the Law to the believer; now if it be there only personally as for himself, then as to that he is the end of the Law only for himself; but if it be there also fide jussorially as for us, then 'tis part of the Price, and so he is the end of the Law to us also. But you'l reply, that though Christ's Active Obedience be no part of the Price, yet his Passive suffices;
