,, so Chriflthe Kinfman·redeemer all which Chrifi, the fecond Adam, undertook in the covenant. Firf/, He was to marry the widow of the deceas'd J<infman, , to raife up feed to his brother• HereofBoaz was put in mind by .Rut/J, chap. iii. 9· ' I am Ruth thtne hand-maid : fpread therefore thy fkirt over thine hand-maid, for t~ou art a near kinfman.' Compare ver. I,o.-, -13. ~hap. iv. Io. and .Ezek. xvi. 8. ' I fpread my fkirt over thce~-and thou becamefi mine.' Our nature was in,a comfortable and fruitful condition, while the image of God, imprefi thereupon h1 ':Aiam, t:emained with it; but that image being removed, in the fpiritual death caufed by his fin, there enfued "an abfolute barrenefs, as to the fruits of holinefs, in our nature thus left. But our Kinfman-redeemer con· ·_ferited to marry the widow. , Being to' take to him· felf a human natur~, he undertook to take on our hu.. man nature in particular, taking his ffe1h of Adam's family. Thus was it provided, that . his body lhould not be made of nothing, nor of any thing whatfoever that was not derived from Adam, as its originaL It was a low match 'indeed, for him; and would have ,been fo, even if the family of Adam had been irt its primitive fla~e and fplendor : but uow it was confider– ed, as in the depth ofpoverty and difgrace. Yet, be– ing neceff.·uy for our redemption, he confented thereto as our Kinfman·redeemer. Accordingly in the fulnefs of time, he was made ofa woman, a daughter of A· dam's family, Gal. iv. 4·; and fo was aSon of_Adam Luke iii•.2J.---J8. Thus was a foundation laid for-the myflical marriage of believers with him ; which my– fHcal marriage doth not belong to the condition .and making of the covenant, properly fo called; butto the promife and .adrninifiration ofit, being a finner's per– fonal entrance therein to. And the great end, in fub– ·ordination to the glory of God, for-which this more intimate union and match with our nature was gone into by Qur Kinfinan-redeemer, was·to ~ender it y~t agam I
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