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"For as the body is one, and hath many mem.
bers, and all the members of that one body,
being many, are one body: so also is Christ.'
1 Cor. xii. 12. "Ye are the body of Christ,
and members in particular." Cor. xii. 27.
"He is the head of the body, the Church."
Coll. i. 18. "The head over all things to
his Church, which is his body, the fulness of
him that filleth all in all." Eph. i. 22, 23.

very explicit, in declaring the Father's love to the Son; but the punishment of this Son, for crimes he stood in no relation to, implies a defect in love: yea, rather a greater love to man, the offender, than to his well-beloved Son, who was the "brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person:" and is withal a manifest contradiction to the divine testimony, which asserts the pre-eminence of Jesus in all things. Withal, to love the im-" Ye are complete in him." Coll. ii. 10. pure, is inconsistent with the morality of the divine nature; therefore, where the Father giving his Son is at any time mentioned as an evidence of his love to mankind, it is a proof of his superlative love unto him, and a manifestation of his glory; the descent of his humbled life, and bloody death, being the appointed depth, from which he was to ascend above all heavens, that he might fill all things; and that he might thus inherit the boundless, infinite riches of his Father's love, it was necessary he should suffer what he did; and, that the extendings of the love of God, to man, might be subordinate unto the love he bears to the eternal Son of his bosom, his union to those for whom he suffered the death of the cross appears absolutely necessary.

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"We being many are one body in Christ, and members one of another." Rom. xii. 5. "And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross." Eph. ii. 16. "And they two shall be one flesh; this is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church." Eph. v. 31, 32. "For both he that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of one." Heb. ii. 11. "And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one, I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me." John xvii. 22, 23. "And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the The union of Christ, and his Church, is a potter, so he made it again another vessel, as necessary consideration, for the right expli- seemed good unto the potter to make it." Jer. cation of the scriptures: without which, they xviii. 4. "She was delivered of a man would want a key, and a great part of them child. Who hath heard such a thing? Who be altogether unintelligible, and without any hath seen such things? Shall the earth just propriety in phrase. To prove which, I be made to bring forth in one day? Shall a need only note a few of the numerous pas- nation be born at once?" Isaiah Ixvi. 7, 8. sages which are pregnant with this matter. "In whom also ye are circumcised, with the And here I design not the least intimation of circumcision made without hands, in putting my quoting all the scriptures which positively off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the speak of this truth; nor will I affirm, that circumcision of Christ:" Coll. ii. 12. "Buthose mentioned, are of the whole, the most ried with him in baptism." Coll. ii. 11. “I pertinent to the purpose, but having their am crucified with Christ." Gall. ii. 20. light and perfection in Jesus Christ our Lord;" Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, and being (as I conceive,) such as treat of His union with the Church, I oft make use of them, as a confirmation of my doctrine, when discoursing on this subject: therefore, occurring the more readily to my memory, I mention them in particular, as “In thy book all my members were written." Psalm. cxxxix. 16. We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones." Eph. v. 30. "Whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it, or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it." 1 Cor. xii. 25.

*God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, &c. The superlative love of God to his Son, is manifest here: where the valuableness of the gift so infinitely preferable to the receiver, is, in order to enhance the grace intelligi. bly hinted. God's giving his Son, and giving himself, is a synonymy in scripture; and confirms the above proposition; the lesser being always blessed of the greater. Only considering, that all things were made for him, and that he is the appointed heir of all things, it will appear in brightness, that the honour and glory of the beloved Son, and of the Father in him, was first and principal in view, when he was given for the life of the world; consequently, God's love to the world, was subordinate unto that wherewith he loved his Son; and all his grace and kindness nnto the world, subservient unto his glory.

when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?" Psalms xlix. 5. "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead unto sin, should live unto righteousness, by whose stripes ye were healed." 1 Peter ii. 24. “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him." Rom. vi. 6. "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." Coll. iii. 3. 66 Dead to the law by the body of Christ." Rom. vii. 4. "If we be dead with Christ, we believe we shall also live with him." Rom. vi. 8. "Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin; but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." Rom. vi. 11. "Thy dead shall live, my dead body shall they arise." Isaiah. xxvi. 9 "After two days will he revive us, in the third day will he raise us up, and we shall live in his sight." Hosea vi. 2. "Hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Pet." i. 3. "Not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ." 1 Pet. iii. 21. 66 Now hath he reconciled, in the body of his flesh through death." Coll. i. 21, 22. "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself." 2 Cor. v. 19. "And

The apostle shows us Adam, as a figure of him who was to come. Rom. v. 14. I would therefore consider wherein this divine grace was shadowed forth in Adam: Moses tells us that when God created Man, male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Gen. v. ii. Thus were the twain created in one: the Woman in her Husband, where they had one name given them: he called their name Adam: It was whilst they were in this condition, that the Lord God breathed into their nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. It was whilst they were in this capacity, undistinguished in person, that the Lord God commanded man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou

was raised again for our justification." Rom. | shall confine myself to a few only, and those, iv. 25. "And hath raised us up together such as show the matter with more ease and and made us sit together in heavenly places familiarity. in Christ." Eph. ii. 6. "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ." Eph. ii. 5. "And you being dead in your sins, and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses." Coll. ii. 13. "Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, and without blame before him." Eph. i. 3, 4. "We shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." 1 John iii. 2. "Because as he is, so are we in this world." 1 John iv. 17. "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus, before the world began." 2 Tim. i. 9. “He hath made us accepted in the beloved." Eph. i. 6. “Is-shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatrael shall be saved in the Lord, with an est thereof thou shalt surely die." Gen. ii. 16, everlasting salvation." Isaiah xlv. 17. "Sure- 17. It was whilst the twain thus existed in ly shall one say, in the Lord I have righteous- one, that the Lord God brought all the ness and strength: in the Lord shall all the beasts of the field, and fowls of the air unto seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory." Adam, to see what he would call them, that ver. 24, 25. "This is the name wherewith he might at once, give a specimen of his he shall be called, the Lord our Righteous- wisdom, in making their names explanatory ness." Jer. xxxiii. 16. "This is the name of their nature; and also by this act be inwherewith he shall be called the Lord our stated in that dominion over the creaRighteousness." chap. xxiii. 6. "To them tures, which the Lord God had given him. who are sanctified in Christ Jesus." 1 Cor. Yea, it was whilst the person of Adam was i. 2. "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, plural, as containing the woman, in himself, who of God, is made unto us wisdom, and that the Lord God said unto them "Be fruitrighteousness, and sanetification, and redemp- | ful and multiply and replenish the earth, and tion; that according as it is written, he that subdue it," &c., and when the Lord God afglorifieth, let him glory in the Lord." ver. terwards (causing a deep sleep to fall upon 30. "They shall call his name Emanuel, Adam, and taking the rib from his side, of which being interpreted, is God with us.' "which he made the woman) brought her unMatt. i. 23. Time would fail me, to mention all the scriptures which I apprehend are full of this matter; and are, as I conceive, incapable of any consistent explication, that takes not in the union subsisting between Christ and his Church. If what I have already said, hath the weight, which it appears to me to have; then, without union with Christ all our hopes and expectations by him are groundless, and without the least shadow of reason: what I have said before, when proving the inconsistency and unreasonableness of his suffering for sin, without union to the sinner, is of equal force to prove this assertion, as I am persuaded, that all the ways of God with man are founded in equity.

to him, Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man." Gen. ii. 21. Thus, her existing in a distinct personality, did not hinder her union to the man, for when Adam saw her, he said this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, as truly so now, as when she only existed a rib in my side. The twain were created in one, the woman in her husband: similar with this, the Church existed in Christ; "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world." Eph. i. 4. "Having this purpose and grace, given us in him, before the world began." 2 Tim. i. 9. The man and woman, under this consideration, had but one name: he called their name Adam. So Christ and his Church, in this

Though I might offer many more reasons showing the necessity of this union, yet at present I shall forbear; judging the hints al-union bears one name, both are called the ready given, sufficient to the purpose. I shall therefore hasten to consider its nature, attempting in my measure an explication thereof according to truth.

Lord our righteousness. He, Jer. xxiii. 6. and She, chap. xxxiii. 16. We the righteousness of God in him. 2 Cor. v. 21. The Lord God covenanting with Adam as the In speaking of the nature of union, as sub-head of the earthly creation, as having the sisting between Christ and his Church, I might have recourse to numerous similitudes which the scriptures afford; and which the Holy Ghost makes use of to that purpose; but

woman in himself, drew a figure of his covenant with Christ, as having the Church existing in him; he as the head engaging for his members; as the husband for his wife

as the King for his subjects, as the root for the Church, nor the Church without him at his branches, &c. Which covenant was af- any time; it was equitable for her curse and terwards confirmed of God in Christ, when condemnation to fall upon him. Withal, he sware unto Abram, that in his seed all the such was his love unto his spouse, that he nations of the earth should be blessed. The voluntarily put himself in her condition, when promises made unto him, are all yea, and amen, he appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh, in him, 2 Cor. i. 20. In him declared, in him tempted in every point like her, that he might fulfilled upon all his members. Adam having compassionate her ignorance and wanderings, the Woman in himself, manifesting his wis- and be touched with a feeling of her infirmidom in naming the creatures, and withal ties. Moreover, the scriptures affirm, that his dominion over them, was the wisdom of "by the offence of one judgment came upon his wife; and her honourable exaltation in all men unto condemnation." Rom. v. 8. point of dominion: so Jesus having the "For all have sinned and come short of the Church in himself, in all the displays of glory of God." Rom. iii. 23. It is evihis wisdom, is the wisdom of the Church. dent hence, that in Adam's offence, all of1 Cor. i. 30. Likewise his dominion, where fended: which supposes such an union beall things are put under his feet, is the ex- tween Adam and his offspring, that his sin alted grace and glory, which was promised was their sin; and his ruin their ruin; thus the Church: Psalm viii. compared with Heb. by his offence, were they made sinners; whilst ii. 6, 7, 8, 9. Eve when taken from Adam they included in him were in passivity, and into a distinct consciousness of existence, was he the active consciousness of the whole. not less related unto him, than when she was And, that his sin hath reached the ends of only a rib in his side, as appears from Adam's the earth, hath corrupted the whole mass of testimony, she is now bone of my bones, and mankind, both the scriptures and common flesh of my flesh: In like manner, the Church experience, (from the visible effects thereof when put forth in the creation of Adam, into daily produced in every man) abundantly dea distinct personality from her head and hus- clare. If it be granted, that there was such band Christ, was not less united unto him, a union between Adam and his offspring, as than when she only existed in him; which rendered his sin theirs, why should it be she did, before the earthy man was created, thought a thing incredible, that the like or ever the worlds were made: as is manifest union, subsisting between Jesus and his seed, from the apostle, who tells us, that he speaks renders his condition theirs? especially as the of Christ and his Church, where he says that apostle hath stated the matter thus: As by they twain shall be one flesh. Eph. v. 32. one man's disobedience, many were made sin"Members of his body, of his flesh, and of ners, so by the obedience of one, shall many his bones, (verse 30,) one spirit (Cor. vi. 7.) be made righteous." Rom. v. 19. The scripwith him their own Lord and husband: Aftures here shewing the method of sin in ter this manner, (according to my apprehension) did the beginning of the creation of God preach Jesus: and the union of Adam and his spouse represent that of Christ and his Church. The next thing I shall attempt an explanation of this divine union by, is the fall of Adam, and of the world in him; for this also abounds with instruction, with positive and intelligible figures of the Lamb and his wife. The apostle tells us, that " Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." 1 Tim. ii. 14. "Never-before they felt it, knew it, or ever were contheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord." Cor. xi. 11. From hence we gather, that Adam was not deceived in his own person; but knowing what Eve had done, and seeing their ruin inevitable, he voluntarily put himself into her condition, by receiving the fruit from her hand, and eating thereof: such was his love unto his wife. And as they were not, (though distinct in person) without each other in the Lord, her transgression extended unto him; and his union unto her, made it equitable, for the curse and condemnation of her folly, to fall upon him; and that without the consideration of his consent and compliance with her.

In like manner, Christ the husband was not deceived but his wife, the Church, being deceived, was in the transgression. Yet as the union was such, that Christ was not without

Adam, and of grace in Christ, takes an occasion to illustrate the latter by the former: intimating, that as sin came upon all Adam's posterity by his single act; before they had any capacity of sinning, after the similitude of his transgression; or of personal concur rence with him in his iniquity: it must have been from such a union to him, such an inclusion of the whole in him, as rendering his condition theirs in whatever state he was: hence, his sin, its curse and fruit, was their's,

scious of existence. Thus by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners. In like manner, Christ's righteousness is upon all his seed: by his single act, before they had any capacity of obeying, after the similitude of his obedience; or of assenting to what he did, or suffered: this manifests such an union to him, such an inclusion of the whole seed in him, as renders his condition theirs, in every state which he passes through; insomuch, that his righteousness, with all the blessings and fruits thereof, is theirs; before they have known it, believed it, or ever were conscious of existence. Thus by the obedience of one are many made righteous.

"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." 1 Cor. xv. 22. (Besides proving the general resurrection) the apostle explains in those words, the matter whereof I am treating. As allied, and

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was raised again for our justification." Rom. | shall confine myself to a few only, and those, iv. 25. "And hath raised us up together such as show the matter with more ease and and made us sit together in heavenly places familiarity. in Christ." Eph. ii. 6. "Even when we The apostle shows us Adam, as a figure of were dead in sins, hath quickened us together him who was to come. Rom. v. 14. I would with Christ." Eph. ii. 5. "And you being therefore consider wherein this divine grace dead in your sins, and the uncircumcision of was shadowed forth in Adam: Moses tells us your flesh, hath he quickened together with that when God created Man, male and female him, having forgiven you all trespasses." created he them; and blessed them, and callColl. ii. 13. "Who hath blessed us with ed their name Adam, in the day when they all spiritual blessings in Christ: according were created. Gen. v. ii. Thus were the as he hath chosen us in him before the foun- twain created in one: the Woman in her dation of the world, that we should be holy, Husband, where they had one name given and without blame before him." Eph. i. 3, 4. them: he called their name Adam: It was "We shall be like him; for we shall see him whilst they were in this condition, that the as he is." 1 John iii. 2. "Because as he is, Lord God breathed into their nostrils the so are we in this world." 1 John iv. 17. breath of life, and man became a living soul. "Who hath saved us, and called us with an It was whilst they were in this capacity, unholy calling, not according to our works, but distinguished in person, that the Lord God according to his own purpose and grace which commanded man, saying, "Of every tree of was given us in Christ Jesus, before the the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of world began." 2 Tim. i. 9." He hath made the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou us accepted in the beloved." Eph. i. 6. Is-shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatrael shall be saved in the Lord, with an est thereof thou shalt surely die." Gen. ii. 16, everlasting salvation." Isaiah xlv. 17. "Sure- 17. It was whilst the twain thus existed in ly shall one say, in the Lord I have righteous-one, that the Lord God brought all the ness and strength: in the Lord shall all the beasts of the field, and fowls of the air unto seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory." Adam, to see what he would call them, that ver. 24, 25. "This is the name wherewith he might at once, give a specimen of his he shall be called, the Lord our Righteous- wisdom, in making their names explanatory ness." Jer. xxxiii. 16. This is the name of their nature; and also by this act be inwherewith he shall be called the Lord our stated in that dominion over the creaRighteousness." chap. xxiii. 6. "To them tures, which the Lord God had given him. who are sanctified in Christ Jesus." 1 Cor. Yea, it was whilst the person of Adam was i. 2. "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, plural, as containing the woman, in himself, who of God, is made unto us wisdom, and that the Lord God said unto them "Be fruitrighteousness, and sanctification, and redemp- | ful and multiply and replenish the earth, and tion; that according as it is written, he that subdue it," &c., and when the Lord God afglorifieth, let him glory in the Lord." ver. terwards (causing a deep sleep to fall upon 30. "They shall call his name Emanuel, Adam, and taking the rib from his side, of which being interpreted, is God with us." which he made the woman) brought her unMatt. i. 23. Time would fail me, to men- to him, Adam said, "This is now bone of tion all the scriptures which I apprehend are my bones, and flesh of my flesh, she shall be full of this matter; and are, as I conceive, in-called woman, because she was taken out of capable of any consistent explication, that takes not in the union subsisting between Christ and his Church. If what I have already said, hath the weight, which it appears to me to have; then, without union with Christ all our hopes and expectations by him are groundless, and without the least shadow of reason: what I have said before, when proving the inconsistency and unreasonableness of his suffering for sin, without union to the sinner, is of equal force to prove this assertion, as I am persuaded, that all the ways of God with man are founded in equity.

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man." Gen. ii. 21. Thus, her existing in a distinct personality, did not hinder her union to the man, for when Adam saw her, he said this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, as truly so now, as when she only existed a rib in my side. The twain were created in one, the woman in her husband: similar with this, the Church existed in Christ; "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world." Eph. i. 4. "Having this purpose and grace, given us in him, before the world began.” 2 Tim. i. 9. The man and woman, under this consideration, had but one name: he called their name Adam. So Christ and his Church, in this union bears one name, both are called the Lord our righteousness. He, Jer. xxiii. 6. and She, chap. xxxiii. 16. We the righteousness of God in him. 2 Cor. v. 21. The Lord God covenanting with Adam as the In speaking of the nature of union, as sub-head of the earthly creation, as having the sisting between Christ and his Church, I might have recourse to numerous similitudes which the scriptures afford; and which the Holy Ghost makes use of to that purpose; but

Though I might offer many more reasons showing the necessity of this union, yet at present I shall forbear; judging the hints already given, sufficient to the purpose. I shall therefore hasten to consider its nature, attempting in my measure an explication thereof according to truth.

woman in himself, drew a figure of his cove nant with Christ, as having the Church existing in him; he as the head engaging for his members; as the husband for his wife

as the King for his subjects, as the root for the Church, nor the Church without him at his branches, &c. Which covenant was af- any time; it was equitable for her curse and Withal, terwards confirmed of God in Christ, when condemnation to fall upon him. he sware unto Abram, that in his seed all the such was his love unto his spouse, that he nations of the earth should be blessed. The voluntarily put himself in her condition, when promises made unto him, are all yea, and amen, he appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh, in him, 2 Cor. i. 20. In him declared, in him tempted in every point like her, that he might fulfilled upon all his members. Adam having compassionate her ignorance and wanderings, the Woman in himself, manifesting his wis- and be touched with a feeling of her infirmidom in naming the creatures, and withal ties. Moreover, the scriptures affirm, that his dominion over them, was the wisdom of "by the offence of one judgment came upon his wife; and her honourable exaltation in all men unto condemnation." Rom. v. 8. point of dominion: so Jesus having the "For all have sinned and come short of the Church in himself, in all the displays of glory of God." Rom. iii. 23. It is evihis wisdom, is the wisdom of the Church. dent hence, that in Adam's offence, all of1 Cor. i. 30. Likewise his dominion, where fended: which supposes such an union beall things are put under his feet, is the ex- tween Adam and his offspring, that his sin alted grace and glory, which was promised was their sin; and his ruin their ruin; thus the Church: Psalm viii. compared with Heb. by his offence, were they made sinners; whilst ii. 6, 7, 8, 9. Eve when taken from Adam they included in him were in passivity, and into a distinct consciousness of existence, was he the active consciousness of the whole. not less related unto him, than when she was And, that his sin hath reached the ends of only a rib in his side, as appears from Adam's the earth, hath corrupted the whole mass of testimony, she is now bone of my bones, and mankind, both the scriptures and common flesh of my flesh: In like manner, the Church experience, (from the visible effects thereof when put forth in the creation of Adam, into daily produced in every man) abundantly dea distinct personality from her head and hus- clare. If it be granted, that there was such band Christ, was not less united unto him, a union between Adam and his offspring, as than when she only existed in him; which rendered his sin theirs, why should it be she did, before the earthy man was created, thought a thing incredible, that the like or ever the worlds were made: as is manifest union, subsisting between Jesus and his seed, from the apostle, who tells us, that he speaks renders his condition theirs? especially as the of Christ and his Church, where he says that apostle hath stated the matter thus: "As by they twain shall be one flesh. Eph. v. 32. one man's disobedience, many were inadesin"Members of his body, of his flesh, and of ners, so by the obedience of one, shall many his bones, (verse 30,) one spirit (Cor. vi. 7.) be made righteous." Rom. v. 19. The scripwith him their own Lord and husband: Aftures here shewing the method of sin in ter this manner, (according to my apprehension) did the beginning of the creation of God preach Jesus: and the union of Adam and his spouse represent that of Christ and his Church. The next thing I shall attempt an explanation of this divine union by, is the fall of Adam, and of the world in him; for this also abounds with instruction, with positive and intelligible figures of the Lamb and his wife. The apostle tells us, that "Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." 1 Tim. ii. 14. "Never-before they felt it, knew it, or ever were contheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord." Cor. xi. 11. From hence we gather, that Adam was not deceived in his own person; but knowing what Eve had done, and seeing their ruin inevitable, he voluntarily put himself into her condition, by receiving the fruit from her hand, and eating thereof: such was his love unto his wife. And as they were not, (though distinct in person) without each other in the Lord, her transgression extended unto him; and his union unto her, made it equitable, for the curse and condemnation of her folly, to fall upon him; and that without the consideration of his consent and compliance with her.

In like manner, Christ the husband was not deceived: but his wife, the Church, being deceived, was in the transgression. Yet as the union was such, that Christ was not without

Adam, and of grace in Christ, takes an occasion to illustrate the latter by the former: intimating, that as sin came upon all Adam's posterity by his single act; before they had any capacity of sinning, after the similitude of his transgression; or of personal concur. rence with him in his iniquity: it must have been from such a union to him, such an inclusion of the whole in him, as rendering his condition theirs in whatever state he was: hence, his sin, its curse and fruit, was their's,

scious of existence. Thus by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners. In like manner, Christ's righteousness is upon all his seed: by his single act, before they had any capacity of obeying, after the similitude of his obedience; or of assenting to what he did, or suffered: this manifests such an union to him, such an inclusion of the whole seed in him, as renders his condition theirs, in every state which he passes through; insomuch, that his righteousness, with all the blessings and fruits thereof, is theirs; before they have known it, believed it, or ever were conscious of existence. Thus by the obedience of one are many made righteous.

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For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." 1 Cor. xv. 22. (Besides proving the general resurrection) the apostle explains in those words, the matter whereof I am treating. As allied, and

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