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On
the
Excellency
of
Chrift.
not
Chrift come
into the
world
after
the ordinarymanner of
generation
?You
will anftver
to your felves,God
would
have
it
fo
,
but there
is
fomething,
of
'Gods
mnnde
that
he
would
have
you know, why hee
would have
it
fo
:
If
Chrill
had
been
made man after the ordinary
manner
of
generation,he
could
nothave been made
free fromAdams
fin,from original
corruption,for the Law did lye upon
Adam,&
his
Poílerity,
ágainft
a',1
that íhould
come
from
him
in the ordinary way
of
generation,
therefore
if
Chrii
now
lheuld.have
come
from
him
in the ordinary way, if
hee
had been of the feed
of
Adam
,
then
hee
mutt
have
been
under
the Covenant
that Adam
was,
for
it
Was
to
all
his
polleriry
Adam
was
to Rand
as
a
publick
perfon, unto
his
poflerity,
and
in
him
wee were
to
Rand
or
fall.
(
Now whether
there
might have
been
any other way or
no for Chrift
to
have been
freed
from
it
, wee will
not
Rand
to
difpute.)
But
now
Chrill
was
freed
from
the
Covenant,
fo
as
hee
was not now
under
original
guilt
,
under
original
corruption,
becaufe hee was
conceived
by
the
Holy
G,iof
,
hee
was
conceived,not
after
the
ordinary way of men, whereas
you
are to
know,that
all
your
children
coming
into
the world after
the
ordinary way
of generation,
coming from man,
by
man,
the
firtt
minute
that
their fouls and
bodies
are
together
,
that the
childe
is
alive in
the
womb
,
it
comes
under
the
guilt of Adams
tranfgreíiion, and
comes
to
bee originally
corrupted
,
pre -
fenrly full of
fm and
corruption
;
but
it
was
not
fo in
Chrill,
and this
is
the
wonder of Chrifts
Generation,
that
bee
was
conceived
by
the
Holy
Ghoul ,
and born
of
a
Virgin
, and
fo
free
from all kinde of
original
fin
;
had
there been
the
lean
fin
upon Chrift
,
hee
could never
have
been
a
Saviour
for thee
, nor
any,
therefore Chrill mutt
come
into the
world in
fuch
a
way
as
there mull
bee no
fin
upon
him
at
all, and
this
is
the reafon
why
hee was born
of
a
Virgin,
and
not after the
ordinary courfe
of
Mankinde
,
and therefore
his
Name
may
well
bee
called
wwonderfaal,
from
the
wonderful
manner of
his
Incarnation.
chrl/t