in the Conflitt,ttion of tl:e Perfon of.,F!Jrij"t 14 j capacity. And thefe in ·thisAtace of bttel!eflual Creatures, were to live unto God, atto come unto the eternal enjoy" ment of him. This Oper tion and End th~ir I\Jature being capable of, they being fui ed unto it, unto them it was de– frgnect. But tin entred theiR alfo ; we alfo finned and came fhort of the Glory ofGod. The enquiry hereon is, whether it became the Divine Goodnefs and Wifdom that this whole ·Nature in all that were partakers of it 1hould fail and come foort ofthat Endfor which alone it was made of God, For whereas the. Angels ftood in their primitive condition every one in his own individual Perfon, the fin of[ome did no~ pre· judiceothers, who did not fin_actually tllemfelves. But the whole Race·ofmankin.dft.ood all in one commonhead and fiate; from whom they were to be educe.d and derived by Natural Generation. The fm and Apofiacy of that rme Perfon, was the Sin and Apofl:acy of us all. In him all finned and died. Wherefore unlefs there be a Recovery made of them, or of fome from among, tbem, that whole[jecies of intellefltu~l Na.... ture, the whole kind of it, in all its Individuals, which was made capable ofdoing the Witl ofGod, fo as to come' unto the eternal fruition of him, mufl: be eternally lofr and exclu~ -ded from it. This we may fay became not the Tfllfdom and Goodnefs of God, no more than it would have done to have fuffered the·whole Angelica! Nature in all its Individuals to have pcriilied for ever. No created underfianding could have been able to difcern the Glory ofGod in fuch a Difpen– f'ation, whereby it wquld have had no Glory. That the whole Nature in all the Individuals ~f it, which was framed by the Power of God out of nothing;--and made what it was for this very end, that it m.ight glorifie him, and come unto the enjoyment ofhim, iliould eternally perijh, if any way of ·Relief for any portion of it were po.ffi6le unto Infinite Wif. dom, doth not give an amiableReprefentation ofthe Divine Excellencies unto us. I i z. · (It
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