The of I. 443 puted,and theoth; towhom it is imputed : It would be VE R S E 4. prodigious and againft reafon to conceive that the fall of Angels thould be imputed unto men, becaufe menhad no unity in condition eitherof nature, or covenant with the Angels,as we hive inboth with Adam,. This commonunity is two-fold, either natural!, as bc- twecne us and 4dam, in whom we were feminally con- tained, and originally reprefented ; for otherwife than in and with Adam therecould at the beginning be no co- venant made with mankinde, which fhould ex equo reach unto all particular perfons in all agesand placesof the world : Or rebintary, as betweene a man and his foretie,who,in conleeirsferi,arebut asone perfon. And this mull be nostuall, theone party undertaking to doe for the other, and the other yeelding and confenting thereunto ; as betweene us and Chrift, for Chrifi volun- tarily undertooke for us, and weby the Spirit of Chrift arc perfwaded and made willing to confent,and by faith to call our fins upon Chriftand to lay holdon him.And betides the will of theparties who are, the one by de- fault, the other by companion and furetilhip engaged in the debt; there is required the will and confent of the ludge,to whom the debt is due,and to whom it belong- ech in the right of his jurifdi6tion, to appoint fuch a forme ofproceeding for the recovery of his right, as may nand bell with the honourof his perfon, and the fatisfa6ionof his jutlice, who ifhe would, might in ri- gour have refuted any furety, and have exaeted the whole debt of thofe very perfons by whole onely de- fault it grew. And thus it comesto paffe that by grace we have fellowfhip with thefecond 'Adam, as by na- ture with the firti, i Cor.15.45-48. So then betwecne Chria and us there mutt be anunity, or elfe there can be no imputation. And therefore it is that we are laid to be jaflipd byfaith, and that faith imputedfor right (out- wife, Rom.4.5 . not the credere, the aaofbelceving, as
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