C A P, r, Inntpratdr. of cbrifis At`izive;nid Pallin, obedience; 439' don for iranfgref ions is not the fame with doing of the Law. What is his reafon ? death it the wager of fin dr of fin only, being due tono creatí e in any' other refpc , nor -upon any other tertne whatfomever. But what thee; ? Now be that is free of death , ¿7 no rvayer ()brio rtcrtr thereunto , cannot but be conceived to have a right unto life , there being neither any middle:condition between death & life, wherein it it po iblc for a reafcnable creature to fit' f fì , nor a air;e any capacity of life, but by ftnertght c'." title thereunto.' Anf.' '1 häagh this be true, as to us` now , that he whoisnoweayesobnoxio ns unto death , bath a tightitntolife ;- Yet the confequence that he Would draw from ir, is not good : to wir, that- that only , which taketh away the obnoxioufnefs unto death , giveth alfo a right to life: becaufe God bath infeparably joined theft effetts together, as alto thcirdi{ìindcaufestogether, and giveth them infeparably ; Co that he whó is pardoned hath allo a right to life , not meerly upon-the account, that- he is pardoned , but becaufe together with the imputation of the Satitfa-, ¿lion of Ch'.ift, whence floweth pardon , he imputeth afro Chrift's Righ teoufnefs, upon which followeth the right to life. And howbeit now , as to us , there is no middle ftate betwixt thefe two ; Yet in Adam there was; for while heftood", he was not obnoxious unto death ; and yet he had not right unto life but was to work out & perfect his task , to that end. But he .tels us, That while Adam flood , he was already in poffelion 6- fruition of life 'clfehecould not be threatned with death. rinf This is not the life, whereof we .are fpcaldi g; we are fpeaking of the life , protnifed by that Covenant , unto perfect obedience : But it feemeth , that he joyncth with the Socinianr, ìn this, granting no life promifed to Adam, but a Continuance of what he was- already in roffef3iot: of, Heenquireth, ifhe had not a ri/t unto life by hi; freedomefiom fin , bütwas' to purchafe this right , by an atlual f..l;illing cf the Laiv, it would be known,` what quantitier ofobedience to the Laav he rnu fl have priid, befere he had made this' ptachafe; drhow long hemuß have obeye& 'eept the Law ? lnf. There is no necef;ìry of any exact knowledge of thefe things ; our maine 'q +ie'Ition cloth' not-i!and or fall with the knowledge or ignorance of them : Yet , we mar fay ( and that is fufficient) that that Law , or Covenant , requiring perfect obedience , and perpetual , without the leatt o:n.ßîon or c<ommifíïon he Mid havepaid all that obedience, which the Law required of him , to the day' ' of his tranfmigration, or change to glory , before the prirchafe h'd been ma- de, He addeth ; for had he lived a two veers in his integrity l uprightncfr, with out the leaf! touch of any tranfgrefjìon, beh rd Elul! bin a debtor of obedience to the" Lawp upon the fame termer, that he war, at the beginning, dT" the leaf! inter- ruftioner breach in the court of his obedience , had even now been the forfeiture of that life heenjoyed. Anf. How long Adam should have lived upon earth, befo, re his tranflation ro glory, we know not; nor -is it of life for us to enquire it is fuflicient to know , that he 'was CO finish his courfr; &''to perfevere ita Obedience to the end , if he would not both forfeit the life he had and the' expectvion of the life of glory, which waspromifed upon his compleeting' - ïnis wor k`of obedience. Head etrr ;' Not t.itbflanding -the Scriytttrer of the Nett'. Tell. Teem to place` J-i h h 3
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