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A02609	The threefold state of man vpon earth conteyning [brace] the glorie of his Creation, the miserie of his Fall, and the sweete mysterie of his reparation : discussed in three seuerall sermons at the Court / by Christopher Hampton ...	Hampton, Christopher, 1552-1625.	1620 (1620)	STC 12739.5; ESTC S2712	38,298	70

is finite his innocent theirs sinfull his obedience is applicable and beneficiall vnto others if theirs be memorable for imitation it is well it can neuer be applicable for expiation The obedience that maketh others righteous must be complete absolute continuall so was neuer any humane obedience it is interrupted often it hath manie intermissions therefore I maruaile what security they can finde that follow after it I should be the more affraid for such a helpe without it I haue nothing to feare but my cause alone if I should repose my selfe vpon this broken staffe I must feare it and my cause too Refugium nostrum non est tale The obedience of Iesus Christ is perfect obedience full of securitie voyde of feare He is the person then by whose obedience many are made righteous His obedience was admirable and it sutes well with his person which is wonderfull singular and not to be matched Dauids sonne and Dauids Lord the sonne of Mary and the father of eternitie the sonne of man and the sonne of God Who being in the forme of God thought it no robberie to be equall with God but he made himselfe of no reputation and tooke vpon him the forme of a seruant and was made like vnto men and was found in shape as a man He humbled himselfe and became obedient vnto the death euen the death of the Crosse Two entyre perfect natures combined glewed together in one person Emmanuel God and man This makes another doubt whether his obedience was performed in the humanitie or in the diuinitie or in both together I answer that he was obedient in the humane nature alone not in the diuine If the diuine nature could haue yeelded obedience had not his incarnation beene superfluous If the diuinitie had bene obedient it must haue died too for he was obedient vnto death and is it possible to haue a mortall diuinitie There was no congruitie that one nature should vndertake the obedience imposed on the other behold a confusion for the Godhead to entertaine and handle the businesse of the manhood Therefore his obedience was performed in the humanitie Destroy this Temple and I will raise it vp in three dayes This hee spake of his bodie So S. Peter saith That he bare our sinnes in his body and our Text teacheth vs That it was the obedience of one man It was not then diminutio diuinitatis no abatement of his godhead but depositio corporis an humiliation of his bodie alone And that had not auayled without an vnion and concurrence of both natures in one person Tolerare passiones nunquid posset nisi homo Mori crucifigi humiliari posset nisi homo S. Aug. in Psal 90. If he had bene God onely he could not haue bene obedient if man onely he had not beene sufficient But when the same person that was creator of all things became obedient and obedient vnto death what is it that his obedience could not worke the death of all the creatures of the world is not equiualent it is preponderant and preferred in the ballance of Gods iustice Tam potens fuit ad priuilegium tam diues ad pretium vt si vniuersitas captiuorum in redemptorem suum crederet nullum tyrānica vincula retinerent The obedience that the sonne of God performed in his humanity was so potent for priuiledge so rich for price that if the whole multitude of captiues had beliefe in him none could remaine in the tyrants bands But of the validitie more hereafter now we are confined to the affaires of his person If man had not ouercome the enemie hee had not beene ouercome iustly Againe if God had not giuen saluation we could not hold it firmely vana salus hominis And if this man had not bene God he should not haue beene partaker of incorruptibilitie and then hee could not transmit it to vs hunc hominem Deus non vt alios regebat sed gerebat This man as Saint Augustine saith excellently had a prerogatiue aboue all others God did not gouerne him barely as he doth euery one else but he bare him too His manhood was inseperably conioyned and supported in the vnitie of the godhead so as death it selfe that seuereth man and wife asunder that deuideth bodie and soule and parteth all things else could yet make no seperation here but then euen in the death of his bodie the diuinitie did adhaere and was coupled with it in the graue otherwise it had followed the condition of all flesh else seene corruption and abid in death Seeing then that there is so firme an vnion of the Godhead and manhood in one person the obedience which the manhood performed may rightly be valued at an infinite rate as if it had beene done by the Deitie it selfe If Dauid thought he did Saul wrong and was touched at the heart when he had cut off the lap of Sauls garment and yet the garment was not himselfe but neere vnto him then may the Godhead much more iustly reckon euerie thing done vnto himselfe that was done vnto this flesh which cannot be seuered from himselfe Concerning the manner of his obedience manie things are of profitable consideration which I suppose you haue heard lately but none more memorable then the alacritie and cheerefulnesse of his obedience which I purpose to insist on Desiderio desideraui I haue earnestly desired to eate this Passeouer with you Hee was sure that he himselfe should then also be made a Passeouer and be offered vp as the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world hee knew then that he should suffer a most painefull and ignominious death which any man else would haue desired as earnestly to auoide as he did vehemently long to vndertake Not that death was any way pleasing to him in it selfe but to declare his affectionate readinesse in obedience to his father and his great thirst of our saluation You may reade of the like profession that he maketh in the Psalmes Sacrifice and meate offering thou wouldest not haue but hast fitted me vp a body Then said I lo I come In the beginning of the booke it is written of me that I should fulfill thy will O my God I am content to doe it In which words I may commend three things to your obseruation 1. That God neuer appointed the sacrifices of the Olde Testament for ransomes of sinne but for figures of the true Sacrifice 2. That the obedience of his Sonne is a full propitiation to appease his wrath 3. That the Sonne offereth that sweete smelling sacrifice of his obedience with all cheerefulnesse In this point the Metaphor wherewith the Sonne of God doth expresse the voluntarie addiction of his obedience is emphaticall and worthy of reuiew Aures perforasti mihi He alludeth to the ciuill ordinance Exod. 21. If a seruant care not for his freedome and say I loue my Maister and will not goe out of his