We are not to hope in a creature, but to set our hope in God. Nor did the incarnation of Christ bring a fourth person into the Trinity. And if this behoved him, if it was meet and fit it should be so, it ill becomes men to make such a difference. But, if his human soul existed from eternity, it was not made under the law, and therefore could not be subjected, by virtue of his suretyship egagements, to endure the wrath and curse of God for us. They that suffer the law, whether they suffer as surety or as debtors, must be made under the law, and be subject to the law.
Men have bodies and souls, and both are under the law, and both have sinned.
And he that redeems them must be of the same nature with them, and near of kin to them, or the former institution of God will not admit of it.