'I 'o . The P,arties in the on the other hand, bear his name too, 1 Cor. xii. rl: ~ For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one_bo4y ; fo alfo is Chrifi.' · · Fourthly, The promifes were made to C:hrifi as the fecond Adam, the head and reprefentative of his feed, GaL iii. r6. ' Now to Abraham and his feed was the promife made. He faith nbt, and to feeds, as of 1nany; but as .ofone, and to thy feed, which is Chrifi.' I own .that here, even as in the text immediately be– fore-cited, is meant Chrifl myfii~aJ, the head and members ; it is t0 them, that the promifes are here faid to b~. mad~; but, primadly to the head, fecon· :darily to the members in him; even as the promife of life, in the fir11 covenant, was primarily made to Adam ;1s the head, and fecondarily to all his natural feed in him. Thus is the typical covenant with Abraham, the prornifes of the earthly inheritance were primari~ ly made to Abrahctm himfelf; and fecondarily, to hi!; feed according to the flefh. And ~ven fo, the pro– m~fe 10.f the eternal inheritance, plain1y Hands made ~o Chrifi, Tit. i. i. ,_In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie,promifed before the world began;, when there was hone, but ·Chrifi, to whom that pro.. inife could be rnade p~r(onally. Accordingly the eo.. ve.nant is h1id to be made with the houfe of l(rae!, 11amely, the fpiritual lfrael; yet are the prornifes of _ it diretl:ed, not to them, but to another perfon, Heb._ viii. IQ. ' I will be ro them a God, and they {hall be t0 me .apeople,' T "he reafon of which plainly appears, in the prom~fes being made to Chrifl: as their heacl.,. · . and reprefentative. Now, forafmuch as thefe pron\ifes belong to the ~o.venant ofgrace, which is therefore cal· _led 'the· covenant of promife,' Eph. ii. 12. 'ti:; mani• · fefi. that, if they were made to Chrifi, as the head and reprefentative of a feed, the covenant ofgrace was m~~e w~th him as fuch ; <lnd he to whom they were · primari..
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