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CASUISTICAL DIVIN:rrY,~&c.- 869
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~mandment given for. a trial of his obedience, to forbear eating
of the tree of kno~ledge of good and ivil; called fo, hecaufe
Adam by eating- thereof came to know experimentally the
good of obedience, and the evil of difobedience; what good
,he had fallen from, and had 10ft, namely, the iiTlage and
.favour of GOD; and wh-at, evil he was fallen into, namely,
,the evil of fin and mifery. -
The bleffing or'reward prop1ifr.d to Adam u.pon obedien~e,
Was life temporal, fpiritual,and. eternal: and it is concluded,
from theI}ce, that he would 'not' only have e9joyed a long~'
pleafa~t and happy life here, with GOD'S [pectal favour and
prefence, but, after a certain period of time, he would have
b~en tranfiated to an eternal and celeftial life with GOD
above. -
The threatning and penalty of this covenant, in qtfe of
difobedience, was'.death, tempo~l, fpiritual and et~rnal, 'to
Adam and all his pofierity.
2. Man having broken-the covenant of works, and thereby'
being incapabJe of life by that covenant, and having funk
himfelf into the depth of fin and mifery, GOD in his free
mercy was pleafed to make a new covenant for Caving perifhing
finn_ers, called the tovenant ofgrace, which is revealed to
us in the' gofpel, ~here we have good news and glad t)dings
of falvation to fallen {inners through JESUS CHRIST the
Metliator of the new covenant. '.•
The foundation _of all this grace, was a gracious compatl:
or agreement betwixt the Father and the Son from all eter-
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nity, upon. the forcfight of man's fall; whereby the Father_
gives to the Son .a certain number . of Adam's fallen
pofterity, the cletl:, to redeem from fin and hell; and
. prom-ifes to him, upon his fatisfying divine jullice {or them,'
by paying a fufficient ranfom .in their room, that he would
accept it, -and.reward him witll.. gre~t honour, and al(o give
grace and g~ory tq his pepple;~ And the Son readily unUertakes
to be the Eletl:'s Mtdiatorand Surety, to take upon him
'plan's natu're; that he may do ;md fqffer ~1l that jufiice oe,"
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