eacb P E R s o N dijtinflly. 243 to. Nay more, thi~ whole na_ture, wa~ not only d;filed, but ~lfo ~ccurfech not only unci .n, bnr alfo gmlty ; gUJlty of Admll s t~anf~ref11on m whom we have all finned. That rhe human nature of Chrill lhould be derived from I1ence fre<' 'rom guilt, free from pollution, this is to he adored. Bur you'will f1y, How can this be? Who can bring a clean thing from an unclt-:~n? How could Chrifl: take our nature, and nut t\le defilements cf ir and rhe guilt of it ? If (a) Levi paid tithes in the loins of Abraham, h~w is it that Chrift did not fin in the loins of Adami To this I an[wer ; there are rwo things in otiginal fin. [t.] Guilt of the firfl: fin, which is imputed to us, we all finned in him, tp' If mivn' ffw.c.enw, Rom. v. 12. whether we render it relatively in wlsom, or ilhtivcly, being 1ll have finned, all is one : that one fin is the fin of us all, "mnes eramus mm.r 11/e bomo: we were all in coven~nt with him; he was not only a natural he1d, but alfo a federal head unto us ; as Chrifr is to believers, Rom. v. 17. 1Cor.xr. 22. fo wa,s he to us all, and his tranf– greffion of rhat covenant is reckoned to us. [2.) There is the clerivatiou of a polluted, corrupted nature from him: (b ) Who can bring a cle•n rhing out of an unclean? that which is born of the flefh is fieOt. a111\ nothing clfe ; whofe wifdom and mind is corrupted alfo; a polluted foumain will have polluted frreams. The firfl: perfon cor– rupted nature, ;.md that nature corrupts all perfons following; now front both thefe was Chrifl: mofl: free. 1.) Chrifl: was never fedenlly in Adam; and fo not liable to the impu– tation of his fin on thor account. lt is true, that fin was (c) imputed to l1im, when he was made fin ; thereby he took mvay tbe ji11 of the world, Joh. i. 09. but it was imputed to him in the covenant of the mediator, rhrougl1 his voluntary fu[ception; and not in the covenant of Adam by a legal imputation. Had it been reckoned to him as a defccndcnt from .Adam 1 he had not been a fit high-priefl: to have offered facrificcs for us, as not be– ing foparate from Jin11ers, Heb. vii. 25. Had .Adam frood in his innocen– cy, Chrill: had not been incarnate, to have been a mediator for finners, and - therefore the counfel of his incarnation morally took not prace (d) until af– ter the fall; though he was in Adam, in a natural fenfc from his firfr Crea– tion, in refpel.t of the purpofe of God, Luke iu. 23, 38. yet he was notin him, in a law feofc, until after the fall ; [o that as to his own perfon, he had no more to do wirh the firfl: fin of Adam, than with any perfonal fin of one whofe puniOunent he voluntarily took upon him. As we are nRt liable to the guilt uf thofe progenitors who followed Adam, though mtu– t3lly we were no lefs in them rhan him. Therefore did he, all the days of his fiefh fervc God in a covenant of works; and was therein ac;cepted with him; having done nothing that lhould difannul the virtue of that covenant as to him. This doth not then in the leafr take off from his porfetftion. o.) For the pollution of our nature, it was prevented \o him from the infrant of conception, L11ke i. 35· The holy Gbo(l }hall come ttpon t het, atJd pf,e power of the highe(l fball owrjhadow thee, oherefure alfo that bo!J thing that fball be bom of thee, }ball be called the [011 of God. J:{e was m 0 de of a Woman, Gtd. iv. 6. But that portion whereof he was made, was fanl.ttfied by the holy Ghofl:, that what was born thereof, fltould be an holy thing; not only the conjunl.tion and union of foul and Bolly, whereby a Man becomes partaker of his whole nature, and therein oflhe poHution of fin, being a fon of Adam, was prevented by the fanl.tifica– ~ion of the holy Ghofr, but it alfo accompanied the very feparation ()f (.f) Heb. ix. 7 , 10. (b) Job xi,-, 4· Joh. iii. 6. ~eJ~"fU 7'iis ctc:erx.~r. Rom. ?iii. 7· ,5's 'l"if 6at~elh Cql.ti. 14. (c) l Cor.v.:u. (ti)Gco.ili.I S. his
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