and following !Jis Example. 2 r 3 nefs, is the fundamental delign of a Chrifiian Life. That which is the befl without it, is a pretended Imitation of his Example in oqtward Duties of Obedience. 1 I call it pretend– ed, becaufe where the firfl delign is wanting, it is no m? re but fo ; nor is it acceptable to Chrift, nor approved by h1m. And therefore an attempt unto that end hath often iffued in formality hypocrifie and fuperflition. I fhall tgerefore lay down the grounds of this defign, the nature of it, and the means of its purfuit. God, in the Humane Nature of Chrift did perfecrly renew that bleifed Image of his on our Nature, which we loft in · - Adam, with an addition of many · glorious enqowments which Adam was not made partaker of. God did not re– new it in his Nature, as though that portion of it whereof he was partaker, had ever been defiitute or deprived of it, as it is with the fame Nature in all other perfons. For he derived not his Nature from AdattJZ in the fame \vay that we do; nor was he ever in Adam as the publick Reprefentative of our Nature as we were. But our Nature in him had the Image of God implanted in it, which was loft and feparated from the fame Nature,inall other infrances ofits fubfifl:ence.It · .,. pleafed the Father that in him ~ll fulnefs (hould dwell, that he fhould bejullojGr~1ce and iruth, and in all things have tre preheminence. But of thefe gracious endowments of tLe Humane Nature of Chriil:, I have di!courfed elfewhere. 2. One end of God inji!ling the Humane Nature ofChrf/l with all Grace. in implanting. his. glorious Image upon it,was that he might in him prope>ie an Example of what he would by the fame Grace renew us unto, ami what we ought in a– way of 'Duty to labour after. The fuln c(<; o-f Gl'ace was I1e– cefEry unto the Humane Nature of Chrifr, from its E[)po– flaticql (Inion with the Son of God. For whereas therein the fulnefs of the Goclh ·ad dmdt if! bim bodily, it became I 7 0
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