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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57735	Emmanuel, or, The love of Christ explicated and applied in his incarnation being made under the law and his satisfaction in XXX sermons / preached by John Row ... ; and published by Samuel Lee.	Rowe, John, 1626-1677.	1680 (1680)	Wing R2063; ESTC R8468	324,819	522

our name in our room in our stead Hence is it said that Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness unto every one that believeth Rom. 10.4 The meaning is Christ performed that righteousness for us which the law required of us The Papists say That Christ first merited for himself and then for us but this is a very fond Opinion What need had Christ to merit any thing for himself who was Lord of all things Christ needed nothing for himself all that he did and suffered was for us The end of his Incarnation and being made man was for us To us a Son is born to us a Child is given Isa 9.6 The end of Christs being made under the Law was for us he was made under the law to redeem them that were under the law as the Text tells us The end of his Sufferings was for us 1 Pet. 4.1 Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh The end of his Resurrection was for us who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification Rom. 4.25 The end of his Ascension and Glorification was for us Hence is it said The glory which thou gavest unto me I have given unto them Joh. 17.22 Hence also are we said to be set together in heavenly places with Christ Eph. 2.6 Christ never sought any thing for himself nor received any thing for himself but he received all things for us Spiritus S. nihil aliud vult nos in morte Christi cernere gustare reputare sontire agnoscere quàm meram Dei bonitatem Calvin They are Calvins words The Spirit of God would have us behold nothing else taste nothing else make account of nothing else perceive nothing else acknowledge nothing else in the death of Christ but the meer love of God to us And what is true of his death is true of his life as Christ dyed for us so he lived for us And this will yet further appear in the 6. The sixth and last Proposition which is this The end of Christs obedience to the Law was that Christs obedience might be the matter of our righteousness Hence is it said By the obedience of one many are made righteous or constituted righteous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the word signifies Rom. 5.19 It is Davenants expression Christs very obedience is imputed to us Ipsissima ejus obedientia nobis imputatur quasi esset nostra personalis as if so be it were our personal obedience like as that very disobedience of Adam in eating the forbidden Fruit is imputed to his posterity as much as if it had been committed by their own actual will In this sense the obedience of Christ or his righteousness is said to be the formal cause of our Justification because the obedience of Christ or his righteousness is accepted of God in reference to our Justification as much as if it had been wrought by us in our own persons Hence is it said Christ is made of God to us righteousness 1 Cor. 1.30 An emphatical Phrase that Christ is made of God to us righteousness It is not said that Christ doth infuse a Principle of righteousness into us though that is true and might have been said and the Apostle saith as much as that comes to in the next expression when he saith Christ is made of God to us sanctification How is Christ made Sanctification to us One way is as he infuseth grace into us and thereby works a work of Sanctification and Holiness in us which is inchoate and begun in us but here is another expression the Apostle useth He is made of God to us righteousness that is he himself is made to us righteousness It is one thing for Christ to work righteousness in us and another thing for Christ himself to be made righteousness to us The one is done in a physical way as they speak in a way of proper operation the other is done in a moral way by way of imputation Christ is made of God to us righteousness That which the Apostle intimates in this expression is That the most perfect righteousness which Christ hath in himself is made ours by true application and imputation Christs own righteousness that righteousness which inheres in Christs own person is made ours by imputation and application Hence is it said in the Text mentioned before Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to them that believe Rom. 10.3 The meaning is Christ answers that end of the Law so as by his obedience to bring in that righteousness whereby we may be justified and accepted of God The Law is still a rule of life to Believers but there is no more use of the Law to Believers as a Covenant of Works no Christs obedience to the Law is the compleat and intire matter of our righteousness Christ hath supplied and answered that end of the Law that his obedience is the matter of a Believers righteousness and all a Believers obedience is not lookt upon on this account to be a part of his righteousness whereby he should stand before God or be justified in his sight This is clear from that Text Rom. 4.2 If Abraham were justified by works he hath whereof to glory but not before God The meaning of that Scripture is If Abraham did good works those good works might be praise worthy and commendable in the sight of man but they were not of that value and worth as to procure his Justification in the sight of God Abrahams best works were too short to justifie him before God therefore it is Christs obedience that is that which God tooks upon in the point of Justification is his righteousness and that only Therefore is it said Dan. 9.24 He hath brought in everlasting righteousness and he is the Lord our Righteousness Hence also is that expression Heb. 7.12 The Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity also a change of the law How is there a change of the Law I take it to be a good interpretation which a Learned man gives of this Text Facta est translatio legis in Mediatorem There is saith he a translation of the Law made upon the Mediator in this manner That he being made under the Law should satisfie the Law for us Now Christ satisfies the Law these two ways 1. By yielding most perfect obedience to the Law 2. By undergoing that punishment which we deserved Hence is it said That we are made the righteousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 It is not said the righteousness of God by him but the righteousness of God in him Videte duo justitiam Dei non nostram in ipso non in nobis August And it is an excellent passage of Austin upon that Text Behold saith he two things the Righteousness of God not our righteousness and this righteousness is said to be in him not in us And it is well observed by another Learned man Christ saith he hath