in the Conflitution oftf:,e Per[on of Ch_rift. 2 57 in what he did or fuffered. For this Alliance depends folely hereon, ihat God bath of one /;food made all Nations of men, A[fs 1 7· 26. Hence it -is that the Genealogy of Chriil: is given us in the Gofpel, not only from A/;raham, to declare t~e faithfulnefs of God in the promife that he fhould be of h1s feed, but from Adam alfo, to manifeil: his Relation unto the common fiock of our Nature, and unto all Mankind there- . . m. ~ 1 The firil: difcovery of the TJllfdom of God herein, was .in · that primitive Revelation, that the Deliverer fhould be of the feed of the woman, Gen. 3. 1 5. No o~her but He who was fo, .could !Jreak the Serpents head, or dejfroy the work of the 'De– 'Vil, [o as that we.might be delivered and refiored. He was not only to be partaker of our Nature, but he was fo to be, by being the feed of the woman, Gal. 4· 4· He was not to be created out of nothing, · nor to be made of the dufl: of the earth, but fiurrade of a UfOman, as that thereby he might receive our Nature from the common root and fpring of it.. Thus he who fan[fijieth and they who are fanClified are all of one, He!J. 2.1 1. J~ evo\ that is, rpuesips-rr(§}v, of the fame maft, of one Nature and bloo.d; whence he is l'lOt afhamed to call them Bret4ren. This alfo was to be brought forth from ~,the T reafures of Infinite Wifdom. / ~ Thirdly, This Nature of ours, whereili the work of our Recovery and Salvation is to be wrought and performed, was not to be fo derived from the Original Stock of our kind or ~ace, as to bring along with it the fame taint offin, and the fame liablenefs unto guilt upon its own account, as ac– company every other indi-vidual perfon in the world. For as,theApofile fpeaks, fuch an High Prieil: became us, (and as an High Prieil: was he to accomplifh this work) as was holy, harm{efs, undejiled, feparate from finners. For if this Nature in him were fo defiled as it is in us ; if it were tinder L 1 a depfi-
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