QUESTÍON XI. 337 speak there of justification and condemnation, by a law or cove- nant of works. But whether the great God would have actually continued the soul of Adam the first sinner, in a state of existenceafter death, and in a long immortality, to punish his actual offence, if he liad not given him a new covenant, that is, a covenant of grace and salvation, this is not plainly revealed nor determined in scripture. It is certain that the wages, or due recompense of sin is death, whether it mean an utter destruction of soul and body, or else bodily death with a state of misery for the soul after the body is dead. The whole of our life and being and comfort in soul and body, is forfeited by sin, and God may re- sume moreor less, as his wisdom shall direct, in order to punish the guilty according to the greater or less aggravations or deme- rits of their crimes*. Secondly, The other part of eternal death, or eternal misery, consists in the raising the body' up again from the dead, andre- joining it to the soul, in order to be made eternally miserable together with the soul, or rather to be an everlasting instrument of the soul's misery and torment.. But that this resurrection of the body to a state of misery, is threatened in the bible for the punishment of Adam's first sin, is what I cannot prove, nor do I know in what text of scripture to find it. The let of in- nocency threatens death; but as the promise of life made to innocency was immortality and eternal life without need of a resurrection ; Rom. ii. 7. so the threatening of death to sin did not, that I can find, imply a resurrection. It was not said in Gen. ii. 17. Thou shalt surely die, and shalt rise again to new sorrows. There are several places of scripture wherein the resurrec- tion is rather attributed to Christ, and to his undertaking in a covenant of grace, besides that remarkable one ; 1 Cor. xv. 21. t< As by man came death, so by man came the resurrection of. the dead:" But Iknow not of any one line in the word of God that provides a miserable resurrection as the punishment threa- tened to the offence of Adam. It is very probable therefore, that the resurrection of the body was introduced by Christ, the second Adam upon another foot, namely, upon the gospel- proposal of mercy to all mankind in the promise made to Adam after his fall, which has been usually called the first * It is granted, that the first man standing under such a law and covenant as is before explained, bath by sin forfeited all that he had, both life and being with all the blessings of it, for himself and his posterity into the handsof his Maker, so far as the rectoral wisdom or justice of God please to resume them ; yet it is justly doubted whether the great God would inflict any penalties beyond death,or any punishment in a future world, on those who have no personal sin, but lie only under the sentence of Adam's imputed sin. This will be debated in the sixteenth question. VOL. gv. Y
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