The fifth Argument is from Christs receiving the Seals, Who so receives in his body the Seals of the Covenant of Grace, Circumcision, and Baptism, and yet needs no putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, by Circumcision, and needs no forgiveness of sin, ⟨p. 295⟩no regeneration, no burying with Christ in Baptism, as Col. 2.11, 12. Rom. 6.3, 4, 5. and eats the Passover, and needs not that the Lamb of God take away his sins, as Joh. 1.29. since he is holy, and without sin, he must be under the Covenant, and God must be his God, in some other Covenant then sinners are, for these seals are proper to a Covenanted people, strangers and Pagans might not receive them, but these in Covenant only, Gen. 17.7. Exod. 12.48. Matth. 28.20. Col. 2.11, 12. and Christ must have received Seals for other uses and ends, then sinners received them, to wit, to testify that he was the God of both Jews and Gentiles, and that he was the undertaker for us, in a Covenant of suretyship for us, to perfect a higher command then any mortal man was under, to wit, to lay down his life for sinners, Joh. 10.18. and beside that, for our cause he was made under the Law, to fulfil all righteousness, and so was Circumcised, Luk. 2.21. Baptized, Matth. 3.13, 16, 17. did eat the Passover with the Disciples, Mat. 26.18▪ 19, 20. Mar. 14.18. Luk. 22.13, 14. he▪ in coming under that state in which he must, because a man, fulfil the Law, and be under even Gospel commands so far as they were suitable to his holy Nature, testifieth in obeying all commands even of the Moral Law (and as the Son of God he was under no such obligation) that he was under a special engagement, and compact to God, for the work of Redemption. And we are taught to feel what inbred delight and sweetness of peace is in duties; when Christ Covenants with God to come under the Law, and under the hardest of commands, to lay down his life for sinners, because it was a Law and command by Covenant, that hath most of obedience which hath most of a Law.
The fifth Argument is from Christs receiving the Seals, Who so receives in his body the Seals of the Covenant of Grace, Circumcision, and Baptism, and yet needs no putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, by Circumcision, and needs no forgivenesse of sin, ⟨p. 295⟩no regeneration, no burying with Christ in Baptism, as Col. 2.11, 12. Rom. 6.3, 4, 5. and eats the Passeover, and needs not that the Lamb of God take away his sins, as Joh. 1.29. since he is holy, and without sin, he must be under the Covenant, and God must be his God, in some other Covenant then sinners are, for these seals are proper to a Covenanted people, strangers and Pagans might not receive them, but these in Covenant only, Gen. 17.7. Exod. 12.48. Matth. 28.20. Col. 2.11, 12. and Christ must have received Seals for other uses and ends, then sinners received them, to wit, to testifie that he was the God of both Jews and Gentiles, and that he was the undertaker for us, in a Covenant of suretyship for us, to perfect a higher command then any mortall man was under, to wit, to lay down his life for sinners, Joh. 10.18. and beside that, for our cause he was made under the Law, to fulfill all righteousness, and so was Circumcised, Luk. 2.21. Baptized, Matth. 3.13, 16, 17. did eat the Passeover with the Disciples, Mat. 26.18▪ 19, 20. Mar. 14.18. Luk. 22.13, 14. he▪ in coming under that state in which he must, because a man, fulfill the Law, and be under even Gospel commands so far as they were suteable to his holy Nature, testifieth in obeying all commands even of the Morall Law (and as the Son of God he was under no such obligation) that he was under a speciall ingagement, and compact to God, for the work of Redemption. And we are taught to feel what imbred delight and sweetnesse of peace is in duties; when Christ Covenants with God to come under the Law, and under the hardest of commands, to lay down his life for sinners, because it was a Law and command by Covenant, that hath most of obedience which hath most of a Law.
