1. The active Obedience of Christ was performed upon our account, whatever was done that way, was done by him as our Mediator and Representative, Rom 5.14. by the obedience of one many are made righteous; and Christs Righteousness as distinct from his sufferings sis spoken of as a ground of faith, 1 John 2.1.2. we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, who also is the propitiation for our sins: so in Dan. 9.24. the bringing in of everlasting righteousness, is spoken of as a distinct thing from finishing transgression, and making an end of sin: which are benefits to come by the Messiah: neither does it any ways prejudice this truth, that Christ owed Obedience unto God as he was man, it being essential to man to owe obedience to his creator: for Adams Obedience was a natural debt, yet if he had obeyed, all his posterity would have lived: and tho Christ himself were rewarded for his obedience and sufferings, as is held forth, Phil. 2.7, 8, 9, 10. that hinders not its usefulness for us: the primary design of it was to accomplish our salvation: which hinders not but that God might give some signal testimony of his acceptance of the love and service of Christ, by recompensing him for the same.
⟨p. 54⟩2. The sufferings of Jesus Christ were also upon our account, and indeed there can no other account be given of these sufferings, no other reason, but this can be assigned of them: his sufferings were exceeding great, as appears by his being afflicted before hand about it, by his heaviness and amazement, by his prayer, by his sweating drops of blood, and no satisfactory reason can be given of these sufferings, but only that he bore our curse: it was not for any personal sin, for he had none, Heb, 7.26. it was not to prevent any sin, God sometimes Brings afflictions on his people to prevent their sinning, 2 Cor. 12.7. but there was no danger of Christs sinning: his nature was not tainted, and the union of the divine nature with the humane was a sufficient security, it was not merely in a way of trial, to try the patience and faith of Christ; the Scripture gives in no evidence of that: neither was it principally to give us an example of patience; but he suffered to make an atonement for us, and reconcile us to God. The Scripture represents the sufferings of Christ under a three sold consideration, all serving to clear up this point.
1. The active Obedience of Christ was performed upon our account, whatever was done that way, was done by him as our Mediator and Representative, Rom 5.14. by the obedience of one many are made righteous; and Christs Righteousness as distinct from his sufferings sis spoken of as a ground of faith, 1 John 2.1.2. we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, who also is the propitiation for our sins: so in Dan. 9.24. the bringing in of everlasting righteousness, is spoken of as a distinct thing from finishing transgression, and making an end of sin: which are benefits to come by the Messiah: neither does it any ways prejudice this truth, that Christ owed Obedience unto God as he was man, it being essential to man to owe obedience to his creator: for Adams Obedience was a natural debt, yet if he had obeyed, all his posterity would have lived: and tho Christ himself were rewarded for his obedience and sufferings, as is held forth, Phil. 2.7, 8, 9, 10. that hinders not its usefulness for us: the primary design of it was to accomplish our salvation: which hinders not but that God might give some signal testimony of his acceptance of the love and service of Christ, by recompensing him for the same.
⟨p. 54⟩2. The sufferings of Jesus Christ were also upon our account, and indeed there can no other account be given of these sufferings, no other reason, but this can be assigned of them: his sufferings were exceeding great, as appears by his being afflicted before hand about it, by his heaviness and amazement, by his prayer, by his sweating drops of blood, and no satisfactory reason can be given of these sufferings, but only that he bore our curse: it was not for any personal sin, for he had none, Heb, 7.26. it was not to prevent any sin, God sometimes Brings afflictions on his people to prevent their sinning, 2 Cor. 12.7. but there was no danger of Christs sinning: his nature was not tainted, and the union of the divine nature with the humane was a sufficient security, it was not meerly in a way of trial, to try the patience and faith of Christ; the Scripture gives in no evidence of that: neither was it principally to give us an example of patience; but he suffered to make an attonement for us, and recencile us to God. The Scripture represents the sufferings of Christ under a three sold consideration, all serving to clear up this point.
