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A27584 A brief view of the state of mankind in the first Adam and the second Adam being the sum of many larger discourses upon that great context of the redemption and mediation of Jesus Christ / by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1690 (1690) Wing B2125; ESTC R15745 14,528 60

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Adam by a Humane Person that must look to it self as well as to the Nature So All he did and suffer'd ran out wholly to the Nature but He is the Head most properly especially to the Renewed Humane Nature entire in Him being conceived into it by the Holy Spirit Adam therefore left his publick Station and privately as a private Person retired into this Head looking as I said to Himself and not to the Nature in this Action The Ends of Gods Constituting this One Man as a Common Head even his Son our Lord Jesus Christ are 1. That He might have in Humane Nature an Adoption of many Sons to Glory in this Great Son of God and Son of Man Heb. 2. 10. 2. There is a Redundancy of Benefit Common Grace and other Advantages upon all parts of Humane Nature in preserving so much of the Remains of Conformity to the Law of Righteousness in the World which would only condemn as in Hell and not guide to any Thing Good but turn the World into a Hell were it not for Christ in whom also so much of Patience and Bounty is vouchsafed to men in outward Blessings essaying their Return to God by Repentance Rom. 2. 4. 2 Pet. 3. 9. in hopes of his Mercy to which this Patience and Bounty give so Great Encouragements Vse This shews the admirable Congruity to our Case to have our Help laid upon so mighty and near a Mediator as Emmanuel God with us Proposition 5. Jesus Christ is a Mediator of Compare v. 15. and v. 19. the double parallel lying on each side the Proposition v. 18. the Grace of God and of the Free Gift of Righteousness by Grace in its Great Abundance even as Adam was of the Offence and its Abundance yet so as that He is a Mediator of Righteousness in his own Obedience also The Grace of God is the Highest Manifestation of the Divine Glory and Goodness to us How High therefore is the Honour of Christ to be the Mediator of it Adam was at first intended to be the Mediator of Righteousness and of the Benignity of the Creator to his Creatures according to a Covenant of Works and Debt and proportionably Rom. 4. 4. by his Fall He becomes a Mediator of the Justice of God upon Sin and Sinners For Sin were it not for that Justice were only the Impotency and weakness and defect of a Creature made to be so Righteous not bearing up to Righteousness that Justice makes Sin so strong 1 Cor. 15. 56. Christ as a Mediator of Free Grace hath infinite Advantages in regard of us above a Mediator of Righteousness only for Righteousness walks by severe Rules and exact Steps Psal 145. 17. Adam being so and sinning could never Recover by Himself Nor any of his Posterity by any Power Receiv'd from Him who entailed Sin and Death But Grace is unlimimited Ephes 1. 6 7. 11. c. 2. 7 8 9. and unbounded in all its motions having no Cause but it self no bound but it self viz. It s own Wisdom and Holiness so is infinitely more potent then Sin It is True Justice in God is Infinite as Grace for in God They are one Grace therefore provides an infinite Satisfaction to Justice in the Obedience of Christ constituting Righteous Rom. 5. 19. of which being secure It triumphs as it pleases and Sin vanishes before it for the strength of Sin is the Justice of God in his Law That satisfied Sin is weak and is blotted out as a Cloud is sought for and not found Corruption dyes vanquished as Grace pleases That the Mediatorship of Christ may be more fully understood in its being a Mediatorship of Grace seeing Justice is infinite in God and his Grace and his Justice One in Him which Justice Judges acts and proceeds according to number weight and measure The Apostle hath joyn'd in an opposite parallel on the other side of the proposition v. 18. the Obedience of Christ so full and so perfect that he plainly asserts that even as by the Disobedience of one many were made or constituted that is judg'd and determin'd Sinners so by the Obedience of One many were not only pardoned and so accepted as Righteous but They are and shall be constituted decreed determined and justly judged to be Righteous by this Righteousness of Christ infinite in number weight and measure becoming theirs Vse This Obedience therefore is to be considered in the Mediator of it truly higher then the Heavens deeper in sufferings in their value and vertue then the lowest Hell broader then the Persons and Sins of All over whom and over which Adams Sin can extend it self in those for whom as in Christ It is accepted and longer then the whole Line of Adams Sin beginning with Time and running on for ever if not cut off by this Righteousness of Christ which is eternal or from Everlasting to Everlasting and nothing beyond it And thus was the Obedience of Jesus Christ an Obedience of infinite Purity and of unfathom'd sufferings of the Son of God a Priest for ever without beginning of Days or end of Life Eternal Propos 6. Upon this full and compleat verse 16. compared with 20. Satisfaction to Justice although the one Sin of Adam becomes Legions of Legions by Actual Transgressions and are seen in every Atom every aggravating Circumstance in the Beams of that Fiery Law yet the Free Gift of Grace in and upon this Righteousness blots them all out of this Light of Gods Countenance And this Righteousness and Obedience is as the Ark of Noah that was not overwhelm'd by the swelling of the Floods but Rode above them and the higher they were the higher the Ark was so the Soul enclos'd and ARKED in this Righteousness of Grace and the Free Gift Rides above all the surges of raging Guilt whether from just fears of Gods Righteous Judgment from the Turmoils of Conscience or the soming Accusations from Hell and stands Righteous notwithstanding All before God before Angels and to the Consternation and silence of lost Spirits For where Sin abounds Grace does much more abound and the Free Gift is of many never so many Offences to Justification Vse Behold then by way of Adoration and Holy Confidence the ample Rest of Consciences wash'd in the Blood of Jesus Proposition 7. The Great Question now arising will bee How can it be ever reconciled to Divine Justice or to Natural Conscience that the Righteousness of one should be made the Righteousness of so many To this the Apostle hath laid the Answer in the Center and even ballance of the whole Discourse As by the Offence of one Judgment came upon All to v. 18. Condemnation so to the Righteousness of one to the Justification of Life The infinite Righteousness and Truth of God hath determin'd the Case One Person may communicate to Many and to All in Him for the Many who are also the All in One Adam in whom the Man Christ Jesus was not