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

1. It hath Sufficientiam nudam; the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ ⟨p. 271⟩have intrinsical value enough to equalize, nay infinitely superexcede all our Debts, and over and besides to purchase three Worlds for us; and the reason is because his Deity poured out a kind of Infinity into his Doings and Sufferings. The Righteousness which he fulfilled was the righteousness of God, Rom. 1. 17. the Blood which he shed was the blood of God, Rom. 20. 28. & the Life which he laid down was, the life of God, 1 Joh. 3. 16. And what nakedness cannot the Righteousness of God cover? What debts cannot the Blood of God pay for? And what Worlds cannot the Life of God purchase? Remember, O poor trembling Soul, remember, he that was pierced for thee was Jehovah, he that was smitten for thee was the man God's fellow, and he that obeyed for thee was in the form of God. O what manner of Actions and Passions were those wherein the Law-giver stood under his own Law, and the Creator suffered in his own World? How was his Obedience elevated into Infinity, and transfigured into glory by his Godhead? What a Mass of sweet-smelling Merits must that be into which the Deity it self transfused Riches and Odours? This may be one reason why Christ is styled the heir of all things, Heb. 1. 2. ⟨p. 272⟩though he be the Purchaser of all, yet he is Heir of all; because he received his divine Nature from his Father, and that divine Nature stamped an infinite value upon the Purchase-money which bought all. May I shadow it out by an imperfect Similitude: A Son receives vast sums from his Father, and with them purchases an estate in Lands to himself; that Son is the Purchaser of those Lands in respect of his own payment of the Money, and yet in a sense he is Heir to them in respect of his receipt of the Money from his Father; So the Eternal Son of God is the Purchaser of all, for he paid down his own Blood and Righteousness as the Price; and yet he is Heir of all, for that Price had its value from the divine Nature, and that divine Nature was received from his Father in the Eternal Generation. There is no doubt then (as long as Christ is God) but that his Obedience hath value enough in it self.