123 the word in the Original is not look,j11g, but receivi11g, they have received ~ Judgment; for whoever fins, God makes that Sin an i?Jpreffion of_Wrath ~ upon his Spirit, he bath received the earnefi of Hell, whtch bath fet ~ts Soul into oppofition and enmity again({ God, as being already caft off from htm, And [o much now for that Point. A word of the !aft Claufe. Even aJ other!. It noteth out two things; as I faid at firfi. Firfl ; That it is the common condition even of ali that are derived from j{dam : They are all thus, By nature Ch,1dren of Wrath. That it is the corn· mon condition of all Men, you have that in Rom. 3· It is the very fcope of that Chapter, to fhew that all are corrupted : Firfi, that all in Man was cor- • rupted, his Underfianding, Will, and AffeCtions: And then, that all Men were corrupted; he inll:anceth firfi in the Jew, and in the Gentile: And then, verf. to. he quoteth the 14th Pfalm, and faith, There n none righteoM, 110, not one. And, verf. 19. We kpow, faith he, that what things foever the Law faith, it faith to them who are under the Law. Now all Men are under the Law by Nature, this is therefore the condition of all Men. . ! And the reafon is this : Becaufe we all cotne from that fir({ Man. Had it been any other, this had not fallen out; but we all depend upon generation from that firfi Man, hence it falleth upon all. Therefore it is faid, that Adam, when he begat Cain, he begat him in his-own Image, and in the Image we are l;>egotten to the end of the Word. It is well for us, that Chrill: was ordained to be, and that he was another common Perfon, and was not by the Law of generation found in the firfi Adam; no,he was ordained a fecond Adam,which takes that off. In the mean time, you fee the difference betwixt Chrifi's Kingdom, and the Devils : The Devil, he bath a Law of Generation, that feizeth upon all Mankind, that all that are born are his Bond-flaves, and that by Nature: But Cbrifi's Kingdom is made up of thofe that EleCtion gets out of the Devil's Kingdom, of thofe upon whom the Holy-Ghoft falleth, either in Infancy, by virtue of EleCtion ; or when they grow up, and are called. Cbrift's Kingdom is but taken out of Satan's. However, it is the common condition of all, to be born in the Devil's Kingdom. Secondly; It noteth alfo, That it is equally the condition of all Men. in Rom. 3· he cloth not only fay, verf. 10. That n•ne are righteous, no, not one 1 llut he afterwards tells us, verf. 22. That there ;s no diffirence; fur aU h•ve jinned, and come fbort of the Glory of God. There is no difference, clearly and plainly none, not in refpelt of what we have from Jfdam. Thereforefometimes, when God fpeaks to the Jews, he faith, Thy Father was an Amorite, and an Hittite; that is, it I look upon you fimply, in refpelt of that original Confiitution and Law, what you have by birth from .Ada11t, your Father Abraham was but an Amorite, and an Hittite; tho out of his Loins otherwife I have an holy Seed, yet ta\>e your natural condition, and there is no difference at all. Therefore in Prov. 27. 19. As in Water, Face anfweretb to Face; fo theHeart of Man to Man. As when a Man looks in the Water, he fees the fame proportion, Limb for Limb : So one Man's Heart is made up ofthe fame Sins by Nature, that another's is; we ate all begotten in the fame Image, and the whole Image, which confifts of all Sins, and of all parts. And the reafon is this, (it is founded upon what I faid before): Becaufe we have it from Adam by virtue of a natural Covenant: He by the Law of Na– ture, I !aid, wos a common Perfon ; now Nature, if it work as a natural Agem, tt doth always work ad ultimam potentia"!, to the uttermofr of his power. But now take Jefus Chrill, and it is otherwife, ·we have Holinefs and Righteoufnefs from htm, not by a natural Covenant, it is not founded upon a Law of Nature, * Q 2 but
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