.. toS Inferences fr~m the point of their being dead to allgood,dead ·in trefPaJJes and fins : therefore the receivers of the gift of righ-... teoufne.fs, mu!l: theFeby be brought to reign in life, not only legally in jufl:ification, but alfo morally in fanCl:ification begun here, and perfeCl:ed hereafter. Accordingly, anfwerable to 11he three parts of the condition of the covenant of grq.c~, .undertaken and performed by the fecond Adam, to wit, Holinefs of nature, Righteoujnefl of life, and Satisfallion for fin; there are three Charatlers, to be found ;in all capable fubjeCl:s,. who being perfonally brought into the covenant, have the rightcoufnefs of Chrifi upon them, and imputed to them. · ·· Char. · I. They are all born .again, and fo made par· t::tkers of a new and holy nature:, -2 Cor. v. 17 •. There· fore, (namely, fince he died for all, ver. 15.) 'Ifany man be in Chrifi, he is a new creature.' Chrifi's be– ing born holy, fecured a holy new birth to .them in 'him : So, they are all new creatures, ' created in Chrifi Jefus unto good works,' Eph. ii. 10. new– made in Chrifi:, as fure as they were marr' d in Adam. And how can it otherwife be? Can a man be ingraf– ted in the true vi ne, and not partake of the fap and I juice of the Stock, that . is, the Spirit and Grace of Chrifi ? No,. fure: ' If any man have not the Spirit of Chrifi, he is none of his,' Rom. viii. 9· Or, cim the Spirit and Grace of Chrifi be in any, and yet no change made on theitJ-nature, bu,t it fiill remains un· renewed ? No indeed : ' If Chrifi be in you, the bo– dyisdead becaufe of fin : but the Spirit is life becaufe . of righteoufnefs; ver. 10. Confider this, y·ewho pre– .tend to rely on the righteoufnefs of ChriLl; ~ut are very eafy in this point, \Vhether ye are born again or not ? Whe.ther there is a holy nature derived fi·om Chrifr, to you, or not? Be1ieve it, firs, if it be not fo, ye have no faving interefi, part, nor lot in Chriit's righteoufnefs. Ye may, on as good grounds, pretend that howbeit the guilt of.ddam;s fin was imputed t:o you,
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