"This obedience, as for the use and end of it, was not for himself, but for us. We were obliged to it, and could not perform it; he was not obliged to it any otherwise but by a free act of his own will, and did perform it. God gave him this honor, that he should obey for the whole church, that by 'his obedience many should be made righteous'. In this, I say, did God give him honor and glory, that his obedience should stand in the stead of the perfect obedience of the church as to justification."
John Owen (1616-1683)
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