46 The Making of the was made with Chri!l: as the fecond Adam?' And this aHo may be taken up.into two things. , · Firjf, The father defigned a certain numger oflofi mankind, as it were by name, to be1the-,'··c·cmfiiruent members of that body' chofen to life, of 'which body ~hrifi ·was_ the ddignep head; and he gave rhem to him for that end. Phil. iv. 3· ' My fellow-labourers, whole names are in the book of life,' John xvii. 6.' ' Thine they were, and .thpu gavdl: themm@i.' Thefe were a chofen company, · whom fovereign free grace pickt out from among the refi of mankind on a pur– pofe of love, and gave to the fecond Adam for a -feed, · on which account; they are f~id to have been cholen in him,' Eph. i. 4· being, in the 'decree of elecrion, laid upon him as the foundation -fione, to be built up– on him, and' obtain f..1lvation by him,' rTheif. v. 9· Which decree, as it relates to the members elecr, is therefore called ' the book of life ;' being as it were _the roll which the Father gave to the ftconJ Adam, · the he~d elect, containing the names of thefe. defigned to be his . feed, to receive · life by ,him. No'w our Lord Jefus, fianding as fe_cond Adam, head of the e.lecHon, towit, fuch as fovereign pleafure fuould pitch upon tO be vefTels <_;>f mercy, did accept 9f the gift of the particular perlons, elecred or ~hofen by his Father, John xvii. 6. ' Thine they _were, and !hou gavefi them me.' Ver. 10. ' And thine are mine.' Likeas the firfi Adam, in the·making ofthe firfi cove· nant, fiood alone, without acrual ifTue; yet had de.– flinated for him a numerous i!fue, to be comprehen– ·ded with him in that covenant, to wit, all mankind; the which, Adam did at ' leafi virtually accept : . fo a · ce~tain number of lofi mankind being elected to life, God as their original proprietor, gave them to Chrifi, the appointed head; to be his members, and compre– hended with him in the fecond covenant, tbo' as yet none of them were in being ; and he accepted of the . gift of them, being well-pleafed to take them in par· ticular
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