The doctrine of the covenant of redemption. Wherein is laid the foundation of all…

2. The fitting of him for this work, with all the things which were requisite for his being every way furnished for the discharge of it, else his Offices had been in vain. God is not wont to send a Messenger without Legs. If God calls any to special Service, he furnisheth him, and this was promised to the Son: he was therefore to have an Humane Nature Hypostatically United to his Person, without which he could not have actually appeared in the Business of mans Redemption, or possibly have stood our Surety, according to the Tenor of the first Covenant. This is by a Synecdoche called a Body, and his Father is said to prepare it for him, Heb. 10.5. and this refers to that ancient Covenant in which there was such a provision made as is expressed in Psal. 40.7. He was also to have this Humane Nature fitted and qualified with all the necessary Endowments, whereby it might be capacitated ⟨p. 62⟩for the doing of what was requisite, and to this end was his Unction promised, Isa. 61 1, 2 whereby he was not only Inaugurated in his Offices, but also his Humane Nature was Sanctified, and all those Graces which were needful for him in his active and passive Obedience, were put into him in an overflowing measure, Psal. 45.8. Joh. 3.34.

2. The fitting of him for this work, with all the things which were requisite for his being every way furnished for the discharge of it, else his Offices had been in vain. God is not wont to send a Messenger without Legs. If God calls any to special Service, he furnisheth him, and this was promised to the Son: he was therefore to have an Humane Nature Hypostatically United to his Person, without which he could not have actually appeared in the Business of mans Redemption, or possibly have stood our Surety, according to the Tenour of the first Covenant. This is by a Synecdoche called a Body, and his Father is said to prepare it for him,