C n A P. 1Z. Mr. Goodkv in`s Arg. againfl 177 Chrifl be imputed to any man, in juflification. But the former is true , therefore. fir c Anf What may be anfwered unto this Argum. the Reader may fee in the foregoing Chapter. Object laff & I shall not here repeat, but go on to take notice of what he faith to that objeaion, which he moveth againf himself , and propofeth thus , if the tranrgref on of the Law be insputable from one Mans perfon to another, then may the Itighteouf refs of the Law be imputed all,. But the former is hence evident , becaufe the fin of Adam is imputed to his poflerity, He ftrfi` excepteth againfi the /viajer, and denieth the Confequence thereof, and giveth reafons of his denial. 1. There it ( faith he ) no loch Emphatical reflraint of the guilt and punifbment to the tran f refjour , as there is of the reward to the performer of obedience : for Gal. 3: 12. the very man that hath done them than live by them ; which it nowherefatdoftheTranfgrefJour. Anf. But all this is Ioofe reafonitig : fns as the Law faith , God will vif:e the iniquities of the Fathers upon she Children , unto the third and fourth Generation ; lb it faith , t hat He will shew mercy to thou (ands of them that love Him , and keep His Commande- mente : and here the one is as Emphatick , as the other. (2) As he readeth Gal. 3: I 2. that the man that doth them , :hall live in them ; fo we read E Lek. ./S: 3. the, foul that finneth it shall die. and Gal. 3: to. Dettt. 27: z6. Curled is every one , that abideth not in all thing, which are written in the Lau' to da them ; which words do Impart as emphatical a rearaint , as the other. But of that Gal. 3: iz. we have Paid. enough above , we might alto mentione that , which was Paid to Adam , in the day thou eautt, thou shalt die , which feemeth to have no lefs an Emphatick Import. But 2. he mentioneth this difference. Sin ( faith he ) is ever greater , in ra- tione demeriti , than obedience is, in rationemeriti : Adam might by his tran f- greff on , merite condemnation to him felf and pofierity , dT yet not have merited by bis obedience Salvation to both; becau jè, if he had Dept the Law , he had only do _ ne his duty. Luk. 17: 1o. d?' fo had been but an unprofitable fervant. .e1 f. A11 this faith nothing , where a Covenant is made , promifìng life to the obeyer, as well , as threatning death to the transgreffour. Albeit Adam could not be faid to have merited life, by his obedience , in wav of proper and thick merite; yet in way of merite expae o , he could have been Paid to have me- sited; for the reward would have been reckoned to him, not of grace, but of debt; and there would have been ground of boattingand glorying. R,om. 3 :27. 4: 2, 4. How beit he had done but his duty , when he had obeyed to the end ; yet the condefcending love of God, promifing the reward to perfe- verance in obedience to the end , was fufficient to found this. Whether Adam had merited Salvation to all his poftet itv , it he had kept the Cove- nant to the end, or not Y is not our prefent quellion tír inquire j this we know, that by one man fin entered into the world, t death by fin, d7 fo death F4U'ed upon all men, f,r that all have finned. Rom. 5: 12. And upon the other hand, this we know , That Chrttt was made fin for His , as a publick per - fon , and all His promifet Seed and Children are made the Righreouf- nefs of God in Him. I. Cor. is 30. L. Cor. S: 21. and thofe are fufficient for our purpofe. 3. He
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