·36 ,The Fat-ties in the ,Jove ofmen; whereby it came to pafs, that fome men, and not all men, were reprefented and conrracr~d for in tf.le ~ovenant. A1l men were alike by nature ; .and there w~s nothing ia one, n"\ore than in another, to -recommend him; ~ut free love pitch'd ori objecrs altogether unlovely ; and fovereign lov.e pitches on fome fuch objoecrs, palling by others of the fame 'con- .dition, ' Evea fo Father, for fo it feemed good in thy fight,' Matth. xi. 26. The veffels of honour, _and the veffels' of difuonour, are both made of the fame finful Jump : a myfiery, that mu!l: be refolved into fovereign will and pleafure, Rom. ix. 2 r. ' Hath not ·the potter power -over the day, of the fame Jump to make one veffd to honour and another unto dilho– nour ?' But fay not; that this difparageth the ' federal reprefentation of the fecond Adam, that he reprcfen– ted only fame of mankind, whereas the firfi Adam . reprcfented all mankind. For, as it is more to be furety for avail: fum, for one man, who.neither bath, ' nor can have, any thing at all wherewithal to pay his ' debt; than to be furety fo_ra hundred fuch as, haveabun- . dance of their -own ; fo it w~s more for Jefus Chrifi, ' to contra er and .undertake for one £inner; th~n for A– d,am to contraCt: for a righteou,s ,world. · And fiill it , holds true, that ' where fin abounded, grace did much nwre abound,'Rom. v. 20. for-~smore by far, to fave . one, than to ruin many. Meari while, thefe repre– fented by Chriil: in the fccond covenant, are 'a great multitude which no man could nuN1ber,' Rev. iv. 9· even as ' the Hars of hea\·en, Gen. xv. ' 5. Rom. iv. 18. lnj: 2. There is no unived1tl redemption, or uni· verfal atonement : Jefus Chriil: died not for all and every individmd perfon of mankind; bur, for the e– letl: only. The contrary doCtrine may c.onfifi with the opinion, which holds the covenant ofredemption, and the covenant of grace, to ·be two difiinlt cove• . nants ;. the former made with Chrifr, and the latter with believers ; . the condition of the one unqertaken and /
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