The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

The principal fitness of Jesus Christ for the work of Mediator, consists in his being God man in our person, yet we must not think that he did not enter into his Office, till he was actually incarnate: the incarnation was necessary to his full discharge of that work, but he entered into his Office, and began to fulfil it before his incarnation: our sins were not actually imputed to him, till his incarnation: but he was a Mediator immediately upon the fall of man: from that time his blood was efficacious, Rev. 13.8. He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world; ⟨p. 42⟩from the time of the making of the covenant of grace, he was a Mediator, Heb. 12.24. and the salvation of the Patriarchs in the first ages of the world, was the fruit of the mediation of Christ; and therefore that solemn consecration of Christ at the time of his Baptism was not unto the Office of a Mediator, but the work of his public Ministry.

The principal fitness of Jesus Christ for the work of Mediator, consists in his being God man in our person, yet we must not think that he did not enter into his Office, till he was actually incarnate: the incarnation was necessary to his full discharge of that work, but he entred into his Office, and began to fulfil it before his incarnation: our sins were not actually imputed to him, till his incarnation: but he was a Mediator immediately upon the fall of man: from that time his blood was efficacious, Rev. 13.8. He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world; ⟨p. 42⟩from the time of the making of the covenant of grace, he was a Mediator, Heb. 12.24. and the salvation of the Patriarks in the first ages of the world, was the fruit of the mediation of Christ; and therefore that solemn consecration of Christ at the time of his Baptism was not unto the Office of a Mediator, but the work of his publick Ministry.