2 56 An l;umbleEnquiry ~nto the Infinite Wij-dom ofGod have been no relief at all unto us, no more · than the a!fum– ing of '?ur Nature is of advantage unto the fallen Angels; the obedience and fufferings of Chrifr therein, extended not at all unto them, nor was it jufi 'or equal that they 1hould ibe relieved thereby. What then . was ' required unto our deli– verance ? why faith he, l'oraj1nuch as the children were par– take~s off!ejh at/d blood, he a!fo /;;(mfelf likewife took part of the fame, ver. I4· It was Humane Nature (here expreffed by fiefh and blood) that was to be delivered, and therefore it was Humane Nature wherein this deliverance was to be wrought. This thefarne Apo11:le di :putes at large, Rom. 5'· ver. I2, q; I 4, r), I 6, 17, 18, 1 9· The fumm 1s, that as /;y one mans dijob::rlience many wr:re made./inners, [o by the o6edience ./Jf one (of one man Chrifi ]efus, ver. I 5' .) are many macle Righ- .. teous. The fame Nature that finned mull work out the Re– paration and Recovery from fin. So he affirms again, I Cor. r 5'. 21. Forjince 6y man came '1-Jeath, 6y man came alfo the Refurret1ion from the dead. No otherwife could our Ruine be retrived, ·nor our deliverance from fin with all the confe– quents of it be effe&ed which came by man, which were committed and deferved irr and by o:.:tr Nature, but by 'man, by one of the !:1me Nature with us. This therefore in the, firfl: place became the 147ijdom of Gorl, that the work of Deli– verance fhould be wrought in our own Nature, in the Nature that l1ad finned. · · // J 2. That part of Humane Nature, wherein or whereby this work was to be effe&ed, as unto the e!fence or fubfiance of it, _was to be clerivedfrom the commOlt Root or Stock of the fame N<lture, in our firfi Parents. It would not fuffice here.. unto, that God :lhould create a man out of the Tuft of the, Earth, or out of nothing of the ['lme nature in general with our [elves. For there would be no cog,nution or .Alliance be– tween him and us;fo'as that \Ve fh0uld be any way concern~d m
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