a .Jf Piew t;fthe ·this difterenc~, to wit, that the firft was for life in perfection to upright man having .life before; the Se– tond, for life in perfeCl:iqn to £nful man legally and morally dead. The parties contracted. for, in this fe· tond covenant, wc;-re confidered as under the bands af death, abfolurely void of life ; a'1d therefore utterly incapable to act for helping themfelves. They lay like . dry bones, fcattered about the grave's mouth, before the parties·contratlers ; jufiice forbidding to give thini .life, but upon terms confifient with, and\becoming its hot1our,. :· 3· The condition of the covenant, the terms pf that · life, agreed to .by the reprefentative, is implied in that he was the lafi Adam, namely, to go through witf.L · what the firfi Adam had fiuck in. 'Adam, in the cove- . nant of works,fiurnbleJ in the courfe ofhis obedience, · and fell ; and by his fall was quite diC1bled to begin ' it anew; he thereby came·nnder the penalty of th<\t c0venan t aHo, but was utterly unable to difcharge it. So the la(r Adam come!> in the room of the firfi, not as the fidl: /tdam fiood in his integrity ;. for' in that cafe, pthere was no place for a n~cond Adam; but, as he lay ' a broken man under the firfl: bargain. And . coming in his ..room, in this cafe, his. bufinefs was, tu fJ.tisfy the demands of the firfi covenant, in behalf of ·his feed. Thefe demands were now run up high, quite beyond what they were to innocent Adam: the penalty was become payable, as well as the principal fum. \Vherefore, the firfl: covenant being ingrofs'd in the feconJ, is declared broken ; and the principal 2-nd penalty being fumm'd up togetl1er, the clearing of the whole is laid upon the lafi or f~cond Adam, as the conditiot) of the fecond covenant. . 4.. The promife of the covenant, to be, upon that · conditir:nr, perf')rm'd by the party contraEl:~r on Hea– \Te'n's fide,' is imply'd in thefe words, ' I have made a covenant with' (iq the original, To) my chofen. That. is, ' 1 hlve, made a covenant.) binding auq obliging m;:- . ,
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