The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, William ... - Adkinshorton.net

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Part I. Redemi^hn and Juflrfication deeded. 5^
orlofingof that happinefs which they had by Creation. This
Text cioth not comjirchcnd wichin the compafTe of it any part of
that Covcvant which God made with the Mediator , rcfpctfting
mansR demptiui: thcy arc two diiferingCovcnanft, and both
of them cannot be contained wichin the compiJle of this
Text. Any m^n may fay fronij this Text, That God doth herein
cicclarc unto Adam the rule of his julticc upon him and
his poftcrity,
ill ca^e he dif'beyed, by tx>iag t!ie fotbiddan fruit, they routl
ccriainly dy the diath. But noiu can truly gather from thb Tt^
vvl;at wjs the rule othi'i jui^ic and me'cy in mans Redemption
b; L>bTjlt.- this muft »c ktc'ied from. feme other Scriptures:
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bu: cither from Gem. 2. 15. or from the Iii:e Scripmret :
this Tex: in ^f«. 2.1*7. dotli not fccU us that Cffil't (houid ledccm
uSjin cheday that y^«//iffl» fhoulddy : the Redeemer, and the way
of Redemption, was wholy hid from Adam f r that prcfcnt.
Secondly, It the death here threatned do concern Ad^m only
and his poftcrity, (with whom the Covenant for life or death v^'as
made, in cafe he did eat ol the forbi(lderi fruit^ then it cannot refptd
Chrifl, because he is not to be held as one of the fallen Tons of
eAdamJ pufteritie ;
for he was conceived by the Holy "Gholt, and
not by natural generation, as all the fallen fons and daughters of A~
dam are : therefore the Mediator canrioc be included within this
death here threatned to fallen Addm.
Thirdly,God laid down this rule of hii jufticc to t^d4m, in the
lime of his innocency, before he had any need of the knowledge of
the Mediator.- therefore why fiiould t|jeMcdiator be comprehended
within this term Thou,ox any thing of mans Redemption by Chrift.
Fourthly, The nature of the curftd death here threatned, is
fuch, that it is altogether unpoflible that the
Mediator could fuffer
it tor ouv Redemption, and therefore the Mediator cannot pofliblj
be included within this word [ThoH~\ in this Text *
Tfadel. Ifjon can ntake it Appear hy g^d e^nfecjuence, that the
Mediator cotdld
not /f^jfer that kind of cnrfed death that u here
threatned in this Tixty then 1 fhall eafi/y acknowiedie that mj inttrpret^tidfi
ts >:ot feri/id :
therefore J pr.tyycu/et mehearjonr Reafon
)X4jji it waJ not foffiblefor the Medtator tofuffcr the Caid cnrjed
death for our Redemption.
Divine.
\ or your better underflanding of the true natiirc of that
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death,