in the Cov~nant. . . St atrain fi·uitful in the fruits of true holinels : and with– o~t it, our nature had for ever remained ~nder abfo- ' lute barrennefs, it that point, even as the nature of , I . 1 fallen angels cloth. & Secondly, He ,was to redeem the mortgaged inheri– tance of his poor kinfman, Lev. xxv. 25. 'If thy bro– ther be waxen poor, -and hath fold away fame of his poif~.ffion, a~d ifany of his kin. come to redeen; it, then fua1l he redeem that which his brother fold. Or rather, ' ' Then /hall. come in his kinfman-redeemer, ,that is near unto him; and h~. lhall redeem that which his brother fold.' Our father Adam, waxing poor, thro' the deceitfu~ dealing of the tempter with ·him, ·quite fold away the inheritance of eternal life, 'for a morfel of forbidden fruit: · and his ' children, waxen more poor fUll, thro' their own perfonal fault, h'ad fet themfelves farther and farther from it•.T4,ey could not have raifed amongfi them all, what would have redeemed fo much as one man's part of it. Howbeit, without it .was redeemed, they could never have had accefs to ~t. ~herefore the fecond Adam, as kinfman– r.edeeruer, took the burden of the redemption on him– felf; and agreed to pay the priGe of that ~ purchafe, ' Dying for us, that we might live together with ·him/ I ThefT. v. 10. . . Thirdly, He was to ranfom his poor kinfman- in bondage, paying the ' price of his redemption, Lev. xxv. 47· ' _If-thy brother-wax poor and fell him– felf.-47· After that he is fold, .he may . be redeemed again; one of his brethren may ·redeem him. ver. 52. according unto his years lhall he give him again the price of his redemption., Being fold in, the loins of our firfl: father, we ar~ brougbt in'to bondage under the curfe of the law. So Wi' are, by nature, the law's . bond-men, and confequently, flaves to fin and Satan; never to have been releafed, without a 'ranfom, the ful1 worth of fo many fouls. This rai1fom was frated -in the covenant; to wit, that the Kinfinan-redeetne~ · D 3 · I !hould
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