of God, and the revealed will of God, to die for us; No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of my selfe: I have power to lay it down, I have power to take it againe: this commandement have I received of my Father. Here is an ex∣presse commandement given to Christ, to die for sinners; and the Father loveth Christ for obedience to this commande∣ment.Asser. 4. A conditionall and a submissive desire, though not agreeable to a positive Law and Commandement of God,A conditionall desire though not aeable to a positive lw of God, no sinne▪ is no sinne, nor doth the Law require a conformity in all our inclina∣tions, and the first motions of our desires, to every command of God, though most contrary to nature, and our naturall and sin∣lesse inclinations.1. If God command Abraham to kill his onely begotten sonne, and offer him in a sacrifice to God, which was a meere positive commandement; for its not a command of the law of nature (nor any other then positive) for the father to kill the sonne; if yet Abraham retaine a naturall inclination and love, commanded also in the law of nature to save his sonnes life, and to desire that hee may live, this desire and inclination, though contradictory to a positive command of God, is no sinne; be∣cause the fifth command, grounded on the law of nature, doth command it. Nor did Gods precept (Abraham, kill now thy sonne, even Isaac thine onely begotten sonne) ever include this, Abraham, root out of thine heart all desire and inclination na∣turall in a father to preserve the life of the child. So the posi∣tive command of the Father, that the Son of God should lay down his life for his sheep, did never root out of the sinlesse na∣ture of the man Christ a naturall desire to preserve his owne being and life, especially hee desiring it with speciall reserva∣tion of the will of God commanding that hee should die.2. A Martyr dying for the truth of Christ; may have a na∣turall and conditionall desire and inclination to live, though his living be contrary to the Lords revealed will, commanding him to seale the Gospel with his bloud, and to confesse Christ before men.3. If the brother, sonne, daughter, wife or friend, that is as a mans owne soule, Deut. 13.6. blaspheme God; yea, if father or mother doe it, Deut. 33.8, 9. yet is a father oblieged to stone the son or daughter; the son, being a Magistrate or a Levite0