[2dly.] He could not have been a complete and
perfect sacrifice, nor have answered all the types and figures of him,
that were Præcipitur,
Lev. xxii. 20, ne offeratur pecus in quo sit מוּם, mūm, id est
corporis vitium: a מוּם, efficitur μῶμος ‘culpa:’ unde
Christus dicutur ἄμωμος, ‘inculpatus:’ opponitur autem מוּם, τὸ תָּמִום, hoc est ‘integrum.’ Ibid., ver. 19, et sic Exod. xii.
5, præcipitur de agno paschali,
ut sit תָּמִים, id est ‘integer,’ omnis scilicet vitii expers. Idem
præcipitur de agnis jugis sacrificii, Numb.
xxviii. 3, quibus ipsa nimirum
sanctitas Christi tanquam victimæ paræfigurata est.” — Piscat., in 1 Pet. i.
19. complete and without blemish. But now, Christ having
this habitual righteousness, if he had never yielded any continued
obedience to the law actively, but had suffered as soon after his
incarnation as Adam sinned after his creation, he had been a fit sacrifice
and offering; and therefore, doubtless, his following obedience hath
another use besides to fit him for an oblation, for which he was most fit
without it.