The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

6. Hence in obedience distinguish two. 1. The nature of obedience. 2. The worth and excellency of obedience. The more the obedience be from our selves, the more it partakes of the nature of obedience. Hence four kinds of obedience are to be considered. 1. Christs obedience was the most legal obedience, and also the most perfect,¹ for he obeyed most of his own, of any, from his own will purely, Joh. 10.18. Mat. 26.•9, 42, 44. His own blood, Hebr. 9.14. Rev. 1.5. My blood, saith he, Matth. 26.28. He gave his life a ransom, Matth. 20.28. He gave himself a ransom, 1 Tim. 2.6. By himself he purged our sins, Heb. 1.3. Gave himself for his Church, Eph. 5.25. Offered himself, Heb. 9.14. And therefore the satisfaction that he made was properly his own. Its true the life, flesh and blood which he offered to God, as common to the three Persons, was equally the life, flesh, blood of God by way of Creation and efficiency: For God as God created His Man-hood, and gave him a body, but that Man-hood, in abstracto, was not the offering, but all these, in concreto, and the self, including the value and the dignity, was not the Fathers, not the Spirits, but most properly his own, and the Sons only by way of personal termination and subsistence. ²1. There are contradictory terms affirmed of this holy self the Son, and of the Spirit and the Father. The Son was God incarnate. 2. The son offered himself, his own life, his own blood to God for our sins. Neither the Father nor the Spirit at all is God incarnate, neither Father nor Spirit offered his own life, his own blood to God; Neither the Father nor the Spirit hath (to speak so) a personal or terminative dominion