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

Christ by being man, was fitted as for some other parts of his Office, so especially to fulfil the law for man: to obey and suffer for us, had he been only God he had been uncapable of obedience or sufferings; had he taken upon him the nature of angels, he had been uncapable of obeying and suffering for us: the Mosaical Law concerning the right of redemption, in the kinsman, did typify that Christ should be our kinsman; this manifested what God intended: but that doth not prove that there was a necessity of it; but if he had assumed the angelical nature, he could not have fulfilled that law that was given to man: the precepts and curses of the law were fitted to mans nature, and some of them could not be fulfilled By the angelical nature; besides the tenor of the covenant of works with man ran thus: that man must fulfil the righteousness of the law, and in case of disobedience, man must bear the curse of it: this the Apostle shows when he teaches us that because we did partake of flesh and blood, Christ also partook of the same. that by death he might deliver us, Heb. 2.14. and intimates, ver. 16. that if he had taken the nature of angels, it would not have served the turn: and whereas he adds that he took on him the seed of Abraham; we are not to understand, that there was any necessity of that any further than from the promises and prophesies thereof, that he should come of that stock; but he mentions his coming of Abraham, ⟨p. 43⟩as that which evidenced that he was of the same nature with us:

Christ by being man, was fitted as for some other parts of his Office, so especially to fulfil the law for man: to obey and suffer for us, had he been only God he had been uncapable of obedience or sufferings; had he taken upon him the nature of angels, he had been uncapable of obeying and suffering for us: the Mosaical Law concerning the right of redemption, in the kinsman, did typifie that Christ should be our kinsman; this manifested what God intended: but that doth not prove that there was a necessity of it; but if he had assumed the angelical nature, he could not have fulfilled that law that was given to man: the precepts and curses of the law were fitted to mans nature, and some of them could not be fulfilled By the angelical nature; besides the teuour of the covenant of works with man ran thus: that man must fulfil the righteousness of the law, and in case of disobedience, man must bear the curse of it: this the Apostle shews when he teaches us that because we did partake of flesh and blood, Christ also partook of the same. that by death he might deliver us,