it Gal. 19 24. and accordingly God not regarding the promised protection of him As is plainliest expressed Heb. 8. 9. And thus the two parties standing at the greatest enmity Man being alienated saith the Apostle and an enemy in his mind by wicked works Col. 1. 21. and God again thus provoked giving him up Rom. 1. 28. as a child of wrath to be a slave to sin to death to Sathan Heb. 2. 14 25. Yet so infinite in his mercy was God so loved he the world Jo. 3. 16. whilst it was yet without strength Rom. 5. 6. yet enemy vers 10. yet sinner vers 8. being not willing that his creature should thus perish 2 Pet. 3. 9. That he was pleased once more to reconcile it to himself and to enter into a new and the last covenant with man and so growing still upon the world were his mercies that this covenant should be so far better then the former that in comparison thereof the other is stiled faulty and not good c. Heb. 8. Now no covenant can be made between Him and mankind without a Mediator a person to go betwixt 1 Tim. 2. 5. Jo. 14. 6. to declare Gods gracious pleasure unto us and to procure and receive from us and offer our submission unto God 2 Cor. 5. 20. See the manner of this Exod. 24. As therefore Moses was of the old Gal. 3. 19. so Jesus Christ was sent the Mediator of the new The substance of which Covenant you may read Heb. 8. 10. relating to Jer. 31. 32. and see the same Ezek. 36. 25. and every where in the Gospels and in the Acts. Repent and be baptized for the remission of Sins and bring forth fruits worthy of repentance where there is remission covenanted on Gods part and future obedience on ours And it was first on Gods part that he would give a free remission of all sins past Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more Heb. 8. 12. 2 Cor. 5. 19. and for the future by giving them plentifully of his Spirit Jo. 1. 17. Act. 2. 17. Jo. 14. 26. would write his laws not in tables of Stone or of the conscience only as formerly but in their hearts so that every one should now know the Lord vers 10 11. and be also enabled by the Spirit to serve him and that not out of fear but love His Laws too now I mean after the Covenant of grace compleated upon our Saviors Incarnation For else the same Covenant was under the time of the Law and before them from the beginning only such as are Spiritual not Carnal so called Heb. 7. 16. -9. 10. natural and grounded on reason and primitive honesty not arbitrary and typical Laws purged from legal Ceremony Col. 2. 14 17. Lastly that he would be their gracious God Heb. 8. 10. and they should be a peculiar trâ—…asure to him above all other people as the same thing is expressed Exod. 19. 5. And this Covenant now he would enlarge from Abrahams seed to all mankind Christ by his Mediatorship making peace as between God and man so between the Jew and the Gentile pulling down the wall which before parted their Courts in the Temple the outer being for the Gentiles See Eph. 2. 14 15. Eph. 1. 10 and would establish it likewise on better promises He is the Mediator of a better Covenant which was established on better promises Heb. 8. 6. The heavenly country and reward of eternal life being not so clearly at least proposed before our Saviors coming as the typical felicities of the earthly Canaan But that he required also on mans counter part That hating and forsaking our former courses we should hereafter being so much enabled by grace so much to be rewarded by eternal glory freed from the unsupportable burden of Ceremonials yeild obedience to his Laws as explained by his Son in a more strict manner then had been performed by former ages Lastly that as he would be our gracious God so we should be his obedient people Heb. 8. 10. Else that there were prepared pa es praemio pâ—…nae And as his exceeding favors were now revealed to obedience even life eternal so his exceeding wrath against all impiety even fire unquenchable Matt. 3. 7 10 12. This I say is required on mans part For in this new Covenant which is done in their baptism by Sponsors and afterward ratified in Confirmation by themselves Men engage something as well as God according to the manner of that former Exod. 24. 3. where the people engaged with one voice All the words c. will we do Now Jesus it was that brought this Gospel this blessed tidings from his Father that was the Sponsor the undertaker the Surety from God of a better Testament Heb. 7. 22. He the person whom the Lord appointed to preach this good tidings unto the meek to bind up the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to open prisons to comfort all that mourn to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord but also the day of vengeance to the wicked Esai 6. 1. He by whom God commended his love toward us whilst we were yet sinners Rom. 5. by whom we have now received the attonement with God vers 11. Rom. 5. 1. by whom it pleased the Father to reconcile all things unto Himself Col. 1. 20. 2 Cor. 5. 18. Eph. 1. 10. -3. 12. And as he came offering Reconciliation from Him so beseeching us to be reconciled also to him 2 Cor. 5. 20. And upon his necessary departure from hence he left others to do the same office and to beseech men the same thing from generation to generation in his stead Vers. 10. And by baptism washing away their sins past to take every ones promise of obedience and fidelity and so admit them into this Covenant Baptism being the Sacrament which now answers to Circumcision which was the Sacrament to the beleevers under the Law not of the first Covenant of works as the Jews misconceived it but of the second of Righteousness by Faith which came by Christ Rom. 4. 11. Gal. 3. 17. In which every single person by Sponsors at the Font if baptized in Infancy afterward in Confirmation by himself gives his particular assent to the Covenant and by this is made partaker of the new promises in it therefore saith the Apostle Act. 1. 33. Repent and be baptized c. for the promise is to you and to your children and therefore a good conscience in obeying Gods commands answering our Covenant made in Baptism to do so called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the vulgar Interrogatio because then interrogatories are proposed about it and engaged for by the baptizand is said to save us 1 Pet. 3. 21. Christ then being the Mediator of a Covenant and no solemn Covenant being made without shedding of blood Zech. 9. 11. see Ps. 50. 5. Those that have made a Covenant with me by Sacrifice See Exod. 24. Gen. 15. Heb. 9. 15 18.
of him should not be broken tho theirs that suffered with him were That the Scripture might be in all things fulfilled in him And by the eating and the sprinkling of the blood of this as of that see Exod. 12. Lamb it is but we must do it with our staves in our hands and our loins girt as then i. e. prepared for another country that we obtain the true and everlasting redemption of which that other was but a type from Satan the destroying Angel and from all the plagues which are to fall upon the Spiritual Egypt of the reprobate world even upon all those who have no share in this Lamb who is worthy to receive power and riches c. because he was thus slain and hath redeemed us with his blood Rev. 5. 9 12. CHAP. V. Jesus Christ the Redeemer from Sin the Law Death Satan MAN made upright but under a Law not only disposed by the integrity of nature but enabled by supernatural grace to keep it upon his fall presently Gods justice substracting his violated grace first became a subject and slave ever since to the dominion of carnal concupiscence and of sin stiled also frequently the flesh The old man to obey it in all the lusts thereof and to bring forth perpetual fruits of unrighteousness See this tyranny of sin and slavery of man Rom. 7. 7. expressed so far as that he is said even to be not only captiv'd but slain by it Ver. 11. so Eph. 2. 1. Dead in trespasses c. and Rom. 8. 10. the body dead because of sin and sin reviv'd and I dyed Rom. 7. 9. see Jo. 8. 34. comp 32 35 36 44. Man did not abide in the house and family of God but lost his inheritance because of a Son of God Luk. 3. 38. he became a Servant to sin and a Son of the Devil 2. Upon this he presently incurred a second miserable servitude and bondage unto the law keeping him under as a strict Schoolmaster and still exacting its task of him Debtor to the whole law Gal. 4. 3. -5. 3 and no way able now as before by supernatural grace to perform it and he not performing it It presently wrought wrath against him Rom. 4. 15. pronouncing its curse upon him Gal. 3. 10. and so committing him a child of wrath Eph. 2. 3. into the hands of Gods justice 3. Now the penalty of this law not observed was death and so man became also subject unto bondage all the rest of his life thro fear of death Heb. 2. 15. The wages of his sin Rom. 6. 23. which also reigned over him Rom. 5. 14. the enemy of mankind and of all of them the last subdued 1 Cor. 15. 26. 4. Of this death Satan was to be the Executioner As the first creature that was the object so ever since and that not unwillingly made the instrument of Gods vengeance toward any other creature both comforting his own pains as it were with the society of their misery and satisfying his hate against God in any mischief upon his image And so upon sin we were presently seized upon by this Jaylor his Captives and prisoners reserved for destruction upon whom he inflicts also for the present all other miseries here suffered for sin See 1 Cor. 5. 5. 1 Tim. 1. 20. Ps. 78. 49. Exod. 12. 23. Rev. 9. 11. 1 Cor. 10. 10. 1 Chron. 21. 1. compared with 2 Sam. 24. 1. Luk. 13. 15 16. And therefore all venemous and noxious creatures to us are called his instruments Luk. 10. 19. But secondly we are not subject to him only as an Executioner and an inflicter of punishment but as the Prince the God 2 Cor. 4. 4. of this lower world that upon the departure of the good spirit presently possessed us as his best house and lodging here below Matt. 12. 44. Col. 1. 13. the spirit that worketh mightily saith the Apostle in the children of disobedience Eph. 2. 2. and we are become of Gods his children Act. 13. 10. Jo. 8. 44. And the lusts of him our Father now we do so that as in innocency we did no good but by the assistance of the good spirit so since the fall we hardly do any evil but by the suggestion of the ill spirit See Act. 5. 3. 1 Cor. 7. 5. 1 Chron. 21. 1. 1 King 22. 22. 1 Tim. 5. 15. 2 Cor. 2. 11. c. So that as he hath power as Gods Sergeant to inflict death at last so he hath power as Gods enemy in this his Kingdom of the Air of Darkness of this world to make us serve him while we live power both regal and paternal over us yet without either the protection of a Prince or affection of a Father making us do that only for which afterward he may punish us God indeed having put enmity between him and man from the beginning Gen. 3. He being told that at last he should be destroyed by the womans seed and therefore rejoycing in nothing so much as to destroy her seed Rev. 12. And into the hands of this his enemy was now man faln And him a very powerful and dreadful enemy Eph. 6. 12. For note 1. That as man hath not by his fall so neither the Devil by his lost all the priviledges of his nature and being permitted still his being is allowed also all the operations belonging to it retaining power and subtilty 2 Cor. 2. 11. Eph. 6. 11. according to the measure of the spiritual strength and knowledge of other Angels 2. That tho as man sinning was ejected out of Paradise so he out of the blessed place of his first habitation Jude 6. unto these lower and darker regions of the world called Prince of them because they are the place of his abode yet here hath he not received the final restraint and judgment for his sin which shall be passed upon him when upon others i. e. at the general day of doom as well for Angels as men see Rev. 20. 10. 1 Cor. 6. 3. 2 Pet. 2. 4. 3. That mean while in this dejection As God hath not taken away their natural power of hurting and seducing from wicked men so neither from the wicked spirits which power the Devil exerciseth as a tempter toward the good and as a Prince over the wicked in this his kingdom of the air Only as God restrains the power of wicked by the opposition of good men so of the wicked by the opposition of good Angels of the Holy Spirit of Christ himself King over all and both evil men and angels by the secret limitations of his providence Job 1. 10. and restrains those so much more who are less resistable and this more in respect of some then of others the children of God being more protected from his seducements by a greater power of the Holy Spirit residing in them c. 1 Jo. 4. 4. Luk. 22. 31. the children of disobedience more abandoned to his will and commands 2 Tim. 2.
26. Eph. 2. 3. Thus man being in his lapsed condition the Apostle makes as it were four persons sin the law and death and Satan tyrannizing over him and keeping him in an irremediable subjection possessed instead of the free loving good spirit of God with the spirit of bondage Rom. 8. 15. and of fear and of this world See sin which is called also the flesh and the old man described as a person Rom. 7. 9 11. Jam. 1. 14 15. Gen. 4. 7. 2. The law Rom. 7. 3 4. Gal. 3. 23 24. 3. Death 1 Cor. 15. 26 51. Rom. 5. 14. And they assault him in this order Sin slayes him by the dart of the law for the strength of sin is the law and death slayes him by the sting of sin for the sting of death is sin 1 Cor. 15. 56. and Satan slayes him by the hand of death As he who hath the power of death from Gods justice Heb. 2. 14. Lastly Satan having no power but from God the justice of God committeth us into the hands of this officer till we shall pay the debt of sin by the first Covenant due unto him Man being in this deplorable condition the Son of God in great pitty to his creature came to redeem him out of the hands of all these that hated him Esai 61. 1. Luk. 4. 18. Col. 1. 13. and to make him a freeman again Joh. 8. 34. comp 32 36. Gal. 4. 23. c. Gal. 5. 1. And that meanwhile justice might be satisfied and every one of the rest also have his due he put himself in our stead into their hands and paid the full ransom and price that was required not silver nor gold Ps. 49. 6 7 8 9. 1 Tim. 2. 6. 1 Pet. 1. 18 19 20. but life for life Matt. 20. 28. 1. To destroy sin in the flesh he came in the likeness of sinful flesh Rom. 8. 3. and after he had endured with the same weak nature all its assaults Heb. 2. 18. Matt. 4. 1. 16. 23. tho he did not sin yet was he made sin for us i. e. liable to undergo the ill consequents of sin as if he had sinned 2 Cor. 5. 21. 2. To satisfie the law he was made under the law also both the moral and the ceremonial in particular reference to the Jew that he might redeem them that were under the law Gal. 4. 5. most exactly keeping it in Circumcision and observation of the Sabbath tho they falsly accused him of the breach thereof and all other ordinances Yet after all this we being under its curse he also tho obedient in every thing to the law for he became a curse or accursed Gal. 3. 13. 3. Death requiring possession where sin had given it a just title and 4. Satan being not a-wanting to use his licensed power in inflicting it Luk. 22. 53. He therefore being first made sin and a curse also underwent the assaults of these two last for us underwent and tasted of death for every sinful man Heb. 2. 9. 1 Cor. 8. 11. even the death of the cross And his going thus far perchance might have served for the discharge of a debt had we been saving some trespasses past in a perfect and entire condition for the future but besides the fruit already brought forth unto death for which we owed it we were also subjected to the dominion of these enemies to bring forth more still for the future In respect of which no compleat redemption of us could be without a conquest of them as well as a payment And had our Redeemer not made a conquest of them had he been either pierced by sin or broken any point of the Law how then indeed could he have paid that death a ransom for us which had been due for himself Again not breaking these had he yet been any way held by death and Satan since tho the ransom was paid for sins past yet their dominion would have remained still in us for producing more How could he deliver us from this dominion from which he could not save himself In which terms the Devil once began to insult over him on the Cross thou that savest others c. How could he rescue us from death being himself detained in it how by his spirit in us destroy sin if that spirit could not raise him from the punishment of sin for all our spirit and life is only from and in him In whose death all our hopes were also dead 1 Cor. 15. 14. Therefore saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 15. 14 17. If Christ be not risen from death ye are yet in your sins See Rom. 4. 25. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Indeed we were not only prisoners for debt to Satan as an Officer of Gods justice Matt. 5. 25 26 but captives to him as Prince of this world and therefore our Savior was our Redeemer also in two senses from debt and from slavery by paying a ransom and by making a conquest which he throughly did For sin could not enter into him nor the law could not accuse him in any point nor could death tho it had him in its arms hold him Act. 2. 24. and so Satan also that had the power of death yet in his reviving from death was overcome Heb. 2. 14. by the power of the holy spirit raising him again from it See Rom. 1. 4. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Heb. 9. 14. Gal. 1. 4. And that he might be a pattern unto us in the way and of the victory of sufferings the manner he chose to conquer these enemies was by subjecting himself unto them and by making himself capable of their assaults and by suffering from them By comming in the likeness of sinful flesh he destroyed sin in the flesh by dying killed and triumphed over death In which Sampson slaying his enemies by his own being slain and Eliah raising the dead child by imitating the same postures were types of him Destroyed the Devils tempting by being tempted by him and in the likeness of the Serpent Numb 21. 9. Jo. 3. 14. being also made a curse like him cured the bitings of the Serpent by submitting to and most exactly keeping the law annulled it Thus he for his obedience being made Lord of the law Matt. 12. 8. and changing the ordinances delivered by Moses Jo. 4. 21. Col. 2. 13 14. Rom. 7. 24 25. Jo. 12. 31. Col 1. 13 14. and translating us out of the kingdom of darkness into his kingdom Tit. 2. 14. Redeemed us from iniquity for good works 2 Tim. 1. 10. abolished death 1 Thess. 1. 10. Delivered us out of the hands of justice Act. 13. 39. Eph. 2. 15. out of the hands of Moses's law And he triumphing first himself over them all thus set us also at liberty At liberty from them 2 Cor. 3. 17. Jo. 8. 32 36. yet not for our selves to be now our own Masters but redeemed us for his service for ever hereafter See 1 Cor. 6. 19 20. Rom. 14. 4 7.
of God as the first Adam was before him Luk. 3. 38. 2 Cor. 4. 4. Gen. 1. 27. And heyr of all things and having the dominion over them as Adam in innocence had Ps. 8. 5. comp with Heb. 2. 6. Psal. 2. 8. which are all resanctified and as I may so say redeemed from their former pollution in him as they were unhallowed by the other see Heb. 1. 2. 1 Coâ—… 10. 25 26. Rom. 8. 19. c. -14. 14. Now he readmitted into Paradise Luk. 23. 43. and to the Tree of life Rev. 2. 7. -3. 21. -22. 14. from which the first was expelled For tho he was and had all these from all eternity yet emptying himself as it were of all former rights in becoming man he thus made a new purchase and acquisition of them that so these his honors might be transferred to his seed as were the first Adams misfortunes Which seed hâ—… now began to propagate and to multiply and replenish the Earth with it He multiplying it not as thâ—… first Adam by carnal pleasure but as a vegetable seed increaseth by dying 't is our Saviors own allusion Jo. 12. 24 23. -3. 14 15. Esai 53. 10 11. And as the spirit in seed upon its burying in the Earth and dying begins first to operate and dilate it's self So did his spirit to the production of a numberless progeny See Jo. 7. 39. For which seed also as well as for himself upon his exaltation he received the promised spirit to be given them for the present Luk. 24. 49. Act. 2. 33. by which the rebelling flesh should be brought again under its dominion And the Crown of Immortality to be received shortly being the two things we lost in the fall of Adam So that look how much the first Adam contributed to our destruction much more hath the second for our Salvation To number up all whose derived blessings upon mankind more particularly we are first to take notice that sin having entred into the world by the first man and after it death this second Parent was forced in the first place to undo the works of the former and to clear the malevolent influence that came from him before he could impart to us his own and remove the punishment the first brought on us before regain the reward he lost us Therefore as the first Adam sinned and we barâ—… part of his iniquity so we sinning the second Adam bore all our iniquities and as we by partaking the first Adams flesh became heirs of his sin so he by partaking ours became if I may so say heir of our sins And that even of the sins of the whole world as not some few but all mankind were sinners and perished in Adam That the restitution might be as large as the fall This man upon the precious Cross offered a price of mans redemption not only sufficient for all the Sons of Adam and yet limited by him to some few i. e. the saved but also actually tendered to God his Father indifferently without exception for them all See 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. where the Apostle argues that all the sons of the first Adam were dead in sin because the second Adam died for them all See Heb. 2. 9. 2 Pet. 2. 1. Rom. 14. 15. 1 Cor. 8. 11. 1 Jo. 2. 2. Rom. 5. 18. 1 Tim. 2. 6. So those that perish Heb. 10. 29. by apostacy could not be said to have troden under foot the Son of God and the blood of the Covenant if no way pertaining to them and so in the Holy Communion if not his body offered also for and to the wicked how could they be guilty of his body and blood 1 Cor. 11. 27. That therefore this blood becomes not effectual and profiting to all in respect of which that phrase for many is used Matt. 26. 28. it is because of the conditions to be performed on every mans part that it may be beneficial unto him See Joh. 3. 16 17. Or also to take the strictest opinion of predestination because the Father hath so pleased to enable only some of the seed of Adam to the performance of such conditions But the Son in all things obedient and subject to his Father chose or picked out none no not his twelve Disciples but took into his diligent protection those whom ever the Father pleased to give him and even amongst the twelve in submission to his Fathers will chose one of them well foreknowing it Jo. 6. 70. to shed his blood See Jo. 17. 6 9 24. Jo. 6. 65. Act. 13. 48. -15. 13. Jo. 10. 26. Matt. 11. 25. Rom. 11. 7. and with a Divine patience tolerated him robbing him of his necessary provisions before he betrayed his sacred person See Jo. 12. 6. Nothing therefore is there on the account of the universality of his pretious sacrifice why every single Son of Adam may not be saved by the plentiful effusion of that all-meritorious stream of his blood which gushed out from so many Fountains made in his body from his head back breast hands feet nay in that Garden-agony thro every pore And those who make themselves uncapable of the benefit thereof make in as much as concerns them the blood of tâ—…e Son of God who loved them and gave himself for them Gal. 2. 20. to be shed so grievous a crime in vain and this by the Apostle is making themselves guilty of his murther Heb. 6. 6. 1 Cor. 11. 27. Thus he by Gods promise becoming the second head of the body of mankind 1 Cor. 11. 3. whereof we by faith are members by suffering and dying for us and in our stead tasting death for every man saith the Apostle Heb. 2. 9. he thus satisfied Gods justice and appeased his wrath toward us as one member in the natural body oft suffers the punishment for the fault of some other Sicut Homo saith Aquinas per aliquod opus quod manu exerceret redimeret se a peccato quod commisisset cum pedibus For by this Communication of head and members Adam brought in condemnation and death and therefore shall not mercy be enlarged as far as justice by the same relation that also they may be removed For as if one member suffers 1 Cor. 12. 26. all the members suffer with it so all the members are counted to suffer what any one doth For all the members of one body being many are one body and so is Christ 1 Cor. 12. 12. and we This is certain the first Adam hath brought no guilt or misery on his members which the second hath not or shall not in due season take away Nay saith the Apostle he hath taken away far more then the first brought to wit all our own personal guilt too For one only sin of the first was enough to undo not only himself but all his posterity and to bring in death but many millions of sins besides that could not hinder the second to procure us notwithstanding them
salvation and eternal life Rom. 5. 16. Now since all our benefit by him comes from our ingrafting and incorporation into him that so his sufferings may be accounted for ours the Sacrament or religious Ceremony instituted to convey unto us this first effect of the second Adams dying for us and so freeing us from the condemnation and washing us with his blood from the stains of our former sins is Baptism After which tho the infirmity of concupiscence still remain for the benefits of the second Adam are not fully perfected till this life is ended yet is both the strength thereof much abated and the reatus or guilt thereof totally removed i. e. that none shall be condemned for the solicitations and importunings thereof which will happen till our redemption is compleated so they be by him sor which he is enabled with sufficient grace mastered and supprest Therefore are we said in the Scripture to be baptized into Christ to put on Christ. Gal. 3. 27. Rom. 6. 2. to be in Christ Rom. 8. 1. Phil. 3. 9. by one spirit to be baptized into one body 1 Cor. 12. 13. To be baptized into his death to be co-planted in the likeness of his death and to be buried with him in Baptism Rom. 6. 3 4. c. 1 Pet. 4. 1. by baptism to be saved from death and sin 1 Pet. 3. 20 21. c. and therefore as Baptism is called our death so his death by him is called a Baptism Matt. 20. 23 Luk. 12. 50. What by him was really performed being by us too represented and acted in Baptism For our Savior is supposed see Rom. 6. chap. to represent till his death a son of Adam as we are and one that had took sin upon him tho he had none in him and so to suffer the punishment and dy to it as well as for it that is no more afterward to be charged with it Rom. 6. 10. and then to rise again a new man according to which we true sinners in baptism are supposed to dy with him to sin Rom. 6. 2. no more to live in it and then to be born again of him to begin a new life a life to holiness called also newness of life Rom. 6. 4. life spiritual opposed to the former carnal see Gal. 6. 1. 1 Cor. 2. 15. Rom. 7. 6. according to which we are said to be already risen with Christ. Col. 3. 1. That is from death in sin Baptism signifying 1. both our putting on some think signified by the expression borrowed from the pulling of old clothes and putting on new a Ceremony used at Baptism in the Apostles times and after them in the primitive Church and being ingrafted into Christ so that we have right to his sufferings c. and 2. then by virtue of his death our being cleansed from sin typified by the water washing us and then 3. our putting to death crucifying and putting off the old man Rom. 6. 6. the son of Adam and so dying to sin signified by the ancient manner of immersion of the body under water nothing of it to be seen and 4. then our putting on the new man and Christ our being born again of water and the spirit and being made a new creature represented in the emersion and elevation again out of the water See Col. 2. 12. -3. 10. Jo. 3. 5. As if you stood by those curing waters of Bethesda nâ—…w stirred by an Angel and saw a son of the first Adam consisting all of flesh diving into those waters all polluted with sin and dying in them which thing one man in every ones stead did for us and then springing up a new child out of this old stock the son of the second Adam consisting of spirit Jo. 3. 6. 1 Cor. 6. 17. washed clean and pure to live a new life in obedience 2. After he hath thus Communicated unto us as many as are his members absolution from sin by his dying to it for us and our implantation into his death by baptism the second blessing he derives upon his seed is Righteousness Rom. 5. 15 18. 19. Luk. 1. 72 75. that by this we may attain life eternal as by deliverance from sin we escaped death And this righteousness this second Adam conveighs unto us in two manners As Adam in like manner did sin to his posterity 1. For first as we derived both from the example of Adams disobedience and from the propagation of his flesh a natural soliciter even in mans innocence for its own delights without regard of their lawfulness Gen. 3. 6. but much more after the fall a pronity to evil and by loss of the Spirit inability to good so from the example of Christs obedience and the traduction of his spirit we receive a new ability inclination and pronity to good and aversion from evil See Eph. 2. 10. Tit. 2. 14. Jo. 8. 39 41 44. Rom. Rom. 13. 14. Eph. 4. 23 24. Rom. 11. 16. 2. Again as his posterity for Adams one sin and disobedience was made sinner and judgment and condemnation came upon them who sinned not after the similitude of his transgression for not their but his disobedience and that also one onely disobedience of his Rom. 5. 12. c. to the 20th The branches being holy or unholy as the root is See Rom. 11. 16 28. Heb. 7. 9 10. So the posterity of Christ both when they yeild obedience yet for his obedience and righteousness not theirs is accepted theirs whether devotions or good works at least many of them being by reason of the remains of the old man as yet only crucified in part weak and imperfect but his compleat and exact for which therefore all the imperfections of theirs by faith are pardoned And when they disobey their obedience likewise being not constant their repentance if it be rightly performed i. e. by now dying to their new sin since baptism in pennance and mortifications and commemorating the Lords passion in the Communion Matt. 26. 28. 1 Jo. 2. 1 2. serving to the remission of sin as they died before to their old ones in Baptism and then by living afterward according to the spirit for his sufferings and obedience is also accepted for obedience So that we are made righteous in Christ see Rom. 8. 1. comp Heb. 7. 9. 10. as well as from Christ in our selves by his spirit as also we were sinners in Adam Rom. 5. 12. as well as from Adam in our selves by the flesh derived from Him See Rom. 5. 15 19. Phil. 3. 9. Rom. 8. 1. 2 Cor. 5. 21. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Eph. 1. 4 6. 1 Pet. 2. 5. Eph. 4. 24. Col. 3. 17. 3. Thus Jesus Christ the righteous 1 Joh. 2. 1. derives to all his members righteousness and life spiritual opposed to carnal Next He for this righteousness advanced by God to Immortality Kingdom Glory c. derives upon his seed the reward of Righteousness life eternal opposed to this
other side to minister the Holy spirit to others by their preaching by prayer and laying on of their hands as he had before to them The same Ceremony being used also by Moses to his Successour under the Law See Deut. 34. 9. Num. 11. By Elijah to Elisha in the Prophets See 2 King 2. 15. Gal. 3. 2 5. 2 Cor. 3. 6. Act. 8. 15 19. Subjecting evil spirits unto them and giving them security from and power over all the power of the enemy See Luk. 10. 18 19 20. Behold I give you power over all the power of the enemy where note that the mission and Authority given to the Apostles before or after our Saviours death are the same only spoken of before as it were by Anticipation and promise which were compleated afterward See Matt. 16. 19. comp with Jo. 20. 23 Enabling them to do the same Miracles as he for confirmation of their doctrine and because their commission was enlarged to all Nations furnishing them with the gift of Tongues Lastly as himself worketh in these his missioners by the spirit so also he cooperateth and worketh with them in others by the same spirit working by them 2 Cor. 5. 20. and yet working together with them too 2 Cor. 6. 1. By whose power only their ministry becomes efficacious over the world 1 Cor. 3. 7 9. Mark 16. 20. 1 Tim. 1. 12. where they plant and water he giving increase 1 Cor. 3. 9 where the spirit from them pricks the heart Act. 2. 37. the same Spirit from him opening it Act. 16. 14. where they take the impotent by the hand he making him to walk Act. 4. 10. Mark 16. 20. see § 20. And it is not to be past by unobserved that our Saviour delegated this his Authority to others not with a parity unto all but with a superiority of some above the rest who as they gave license of some ministrations to others found qualified for them See Act. 10. 48. so they retained some other ministrations to themselves For we find laying on of hands which is named Heb. 6. 2. amongst the principles of the doctrine of Christ both that at or after Baptism used to all for receiving the more extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost from whence the custome since of Confirmation by the Bishop and that which was used in ordaining Presbyters and setting men apart for the Ministry of the Gospel This imposition of hands being a more solemn intercession for them and a powerful recommendation of them to the grace of God for the work which they are called to and are to fulfil See Act. 13. 3. comp with 14. 26. See St Paul himself receiving the first Act. 9. 17. the second Act. 13. 3. wee find I say this imposition of hands or power of Ordination and Confirmation to be appropriated to the Apostles and Apostolical men not common to all See Act. 6. 6. -8. 17 -19. 6. -20. 28. -13. 3. Eph. 1. 13. 1 Tim. 5. 22. Tit. 1. 5. For this cause left I thee in Crete that thou shouldest ordain Presbyters c. where doubtless were many other Presbyters to whom the same office was not permitted or not permitted to them alone but as assistants to Titus See 1 Tim. 4. 14. comp with 2 Tim. 1. 6 as also a consent and approbation or also nomination or election of persons whom they thought fitting was permitted to the Christian Assemblies and the whole Church Act. 6. 3. comp with 6. 2 Cor. 8. 19. tho 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 implies not necessarily common votes See Act. 10. 41. -14. 23. the people being present at the publique acts of the Clergy and assisting them at least with their prayers See Act. 21. 22. -15. 22. 2 Cor. 2. 10. Nor did this Apostolical office of our Lord expire with the Apostles as some may think that there was no need of continuing such a selected Body of Teachers after Christianity planted and four Gospels and so many Epistles written yet what would not the same men give for such an Apostle at this day as could decide so many controversies which are in Religion whilst they say they need them not But he who lives for ever and hath the keyes c. Rev. 1. 18. and who ascended from hence on high to receive these very gifts for and to bestow then on men Eph. 4. 7 8. continues for ever also this office of ordination by his Servants laying on their hands and his own breathing upon and giving the spirit unto them to those that have succeeded the Apostles and that shall succeed to the end of the world Therefore as he gave the Apostles so 't is said also he gave the Pastors and Teachers according to the measure of the gift he thought fit that were made by the Apostles Eph. 4. 11 8. Rom. 10. 15. 2 Tim. 1. 14. Matt. 23. 24. And Act. 20. 28. the Holy Ghost descending from Him made the Overseers of the Church of Ephesus And how can they preach unless they be sent Rom. 10. 15. sent i. e. by God Heb. 5. 4. For this honour especially of ministring the spirit remitting sins c. never any man might take to himself but only give what he first received If he do otherwise he is in a worse condition then Simon who at least would have bought the giving it Sent by God I say else is their preaching to no purpose the effect of which for ever consists not in the wisdom of men which works contrary to it as thought foolishness but in the power of God 1 Cor. 2. 5. see 1 Cor. 12. 3. Matt. 16. 17. 1 Jo. 4. 2. Luk. 18. 34. Act. 16. 14. Jam. 1. 5 17. -3. 15 17. Eph. 3. 5. Therefore St Paul calls his Apostleship a Grace and those whom the Apostle as well as whom our Saviour ordained received in such Ordination a gift from our Lord see 1 Tim. 4. 14. 2 Tim. 1. 6. And the same form of Doctrine was kept in the Apostles successours by the same Holy Ghost 2 Tim. 1. 14. Neither is Christs assistance promised only to the Apostles but to their Successours to the end of the world Matt. 28. 20. Jo. 14. 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. an assistant to you for ever Matt. 18. 20. comp Col. 2. 5. The Church alwaies the pillar and ground where truth is to be found 1 Tim. 3. 15. 2 Tim. 2. 19. comp 16 17. Heb. 12. 25. Tell the Church saith our Lord for whatsoever they shall bind c. Matt. 18. 17 18 And the gates of Hell shall never prevail against those to whom I give the keyes c. Matt. 16. 18 19. Therefore our Saviour after all the Apostles times except Johns is described Rev. 1. 13 16. tho in glory yet walking in the midst of the golden Candlesticks i. e. the Churches of Asia and holding the Stars i. e. the Angels of those Churches in his hands And see our Lord still acting Act. 3. 26. Act. 5. 31.
was stung I come saith he to do thy will O God which the First disobeyed Thy law is within my heart Ps. 40. 8. Heb. 8. 10. Matt. 6. 17. And accordingly he was made under the law all the law that might be both Moral and Ceremonial And to him thus undertaking on the one part the promise was made by God on the other the promise not only for himself which needs not to be doubted see Heb. 11. 6. but for his seed also See Gal. 3. 16 19 22. Namely that all the world should be blessed in him as in the first they were cursed Blessed first in receiving the promise of the spirit as the earnest and seal of the inheritance Gal. 3. 14. Act. 2. 32. and then the inheritance it self of eternal life which promises he upon his obedience received first himself and then traduced to his posterity Of whom indeed Abraham and afterward David for with him also was a Covenant made concerning his seed were but types the promise of being Father of the faithful and heir of the world Rom. 4. 13. being made to Abraham only in this seed see Heb. 1. 2. Gal. 3. 17. and so said to be fulfilled now in his Resurrection or rewardment Act. 13. 32 33. In which seed the Gentiles as well as the Jews were first blessed according to the promise Gal. 3. 8. And so only he the true Father of all the faithful Heb. 2. 13 14. Esai 9. 6. of whom Abraham their Father was also a Son And this second Adam coming to perform this obedience and to obtain these promises for undone man that he might destroy the former works both of the Devil and of man by his instigation 1 Jo. 3. 8. and shew that our standing is by humility as our fall was by pride was made in a quite contrary way to the first For as the first came out of the Earth of no worth in himself So he came from Heaven no less then the eternal Son of God And as the first being from so mean an extraction made Lord of all the world and placed in a Garden of pleasure yet hearkning to the Serpent who represented the Divel whose wiles still tempt us and to his wife who being also his own flesh then represented the flesh which now tempts us and enticed likewise by the fairness of the forbidden fruit which represents the pleasures of the world now tempting us whilst he thought by tasting of this to attain I know not what wisdom and happiness in the event lost himself and us by his ambition and pride after the similitude of whose transgression his posterity daily offends by the same temptations So this second Adam of so noble a descent by the contrary waies to these conquered and recovered all the former's losses that is 1 By annihilating himself when he was before Lord of all things to answer the other's magnifying Himself being nothing and by assuming also amongst men a low and afflicted condition His kindred so mean the people were much offended at it that a Prophet should have such a poor alliance Mark 6. 3 4. By becoming a man of sorrows and acquainted with griefs without form or comliness despised and rejected of men abhorred of his own Nation of his kindred laughed to scorn and made mouths at see Esai 49. 7. -53. 2 3. Ps. 22. 7. one of a manual trade a Carpenter Mark 6. 5. Jo. 7. 15. and a long time an Apprentice at it for anything we know till 30 years old so much time passed in obscurity and silence Luk. 3. 23. for any thing that is mentioned of him except his three daies spent at Jerusalem when twelve years old about his heavenly Fathers business In the time of his preaching afterwards by being of such professed poverty as that he had not where at night after his toilsome work to rest his head Matt. 8. 20. as he told a Scribe what he was to expect if he follow'd him but when he had taught all day in the City went at night and lay on an hill Luk. 21. 37. Mark 11. 17. even depriving himself of that ordinary provision which his Father makes for the Beasts and for the Fowles And as for his followers their eating green Corn and that on no fasting day argued they made many hungry meales Matt. 12. 1. So that to follow him might well be called taking up a daily Cross Luk. 9. 23. therefore 't is observed he chose men hardy not learned to endure all labors Especially when as they were likewise to do all their work preach cure diseases c. gratis gratis accepistis gratis date and without taking any thing for their labour tho mens charities by Gods providence were not awanting unto them Matt. 10. 8 9. Again by being of such professed and wonderful humility so avoiding of all honor or applause that besides the living so obscurely and unknown of this wisdom and power of God for 30 years he afterwards resorted to no Princes Courts at all was seldom amongst the Rabbins not often in great Cities very rarely at Jerusalem except a little before his passion chid for it by his Friends Jo. 7. 4. Made no ostentation of his knowledge but veiled and covered it in Parables and Proverbs which was not without some prejudice to him see Jo. 16. 29 30. and when they admired it he told them he spake not of himself It was not his own wisdom but his that sent Him Jo. 7. 16. and this over and over again No ostentation of his works so miraculous but 〈◊〉 them as much as he could and when brought once before a King to do some altogether forbare them No ostentation of his holiness but used a common and free conversation neither strict for his diet nor his company for he was not to avoid the encountring of any temptation called therefore a Wine-bibber and keeper of ill company questioned for not fasting and He and his Disciples disesteemed in comparison of the Baptist and his Matt. 9. 14. In his riding in triumph into Jerusalem at the same time when other paschal Lambs also destined for the slaughter were solemnly brought in see Exod. 12. 3 6. taking only an Asse nay possibly only a little Colt of an Asse to ride on in this his great time of State from which the Prophet long before noted his great humility and lowliness Zech. 9. 9. Learn of Him for he was meek and lowly By coming in the quality of a Servant a voluntary Servant to secular Rulers Esai 49. 7. to his servants even to washing their feet Matt. 20. 28. to his Father in all things see Esai 50. 4 5 6. tho he were a Son saith the Apostle yet learning obedience by the things which he suffered Heb. 5. 8. In nothing pleasing Himself nor seeking his own will Jo. 5. 30. but doing alwaies whatever pleased his Father Jo. 8. 29. Obedient when by him commanded death such a death Phil. 2. 8. as the other disobedient merited
history divulged most early to lesson all posterity not to adjudge prosperity only to the godly nor affliction to the wicked But it was so with single persons but not so with nations because they had promises of temporal happiness then upon holiness first and have they not so still Doth not God still temporally bless both persons and nations that fear and serve him the preachers tell them so And for righteous men are there none now that may say with David Psal. 16. 6 But if temporal prosperity be the promise of the law and affliction the lot of the Gospel then as then we argue Israel Gods people when prosperous we must argue them so still because now most distressed Nay further them then not to be Gods people because no nation seems to have suffered more then the Israelites not to a final extirpation of them for whom mercy is in the last place reserved but for all manner of tyranny and oppression over them if we do but together with their short felicities in Joshua's and Davids and Solomon's time c. consider their condition in Egypt after in the wilderness in the time of the Judges under the invasions of the kings of Syria Babylon Egypt Antiochus Romans For as the temporal prosperity of those who are Gods people depends only on the continuance of their holmess God judging here those more whom he will not judge hereafter and visiting the sins of his servants almost alwaies with temporal afflictions tho he deals not so with others because reserved for future and greater punishments so they never continuing long without offending God it comes to pass that they never long abide temporally happy And we see the very life of holy men not unoften ending in the temporal punishment of some sin as good Josiah's and Moses's and the Corinthians 1 Cor. 11. 30. comp with 32. Only the certain comfort to these whether men or nations is that Gods judgments alwaies end to them in mercies mercies everlasting And Gods proceedings with them are alwaies such as are described Psal. 89. 32. and Esai 54. 7 8. yet that moment contains their sufferings at this day as appears by v. 9. c. and speaking of their last conversion 3. That prosperity was observed under the old Testament to be the ordinary inheritance and port on of the wicked see those many expostulations we find every where in the ancient Scriptures See Jer. 12 1 2. Job 21. 1. c. and whose friends were reproved by God for maintai ing throout that discourse the contrary Job 42. 7 8. Psal. 73. 1. c. Mal. 3. 14. Psal. 17. 14. which wonderment is as much now as it was then and proceeds not from a right supposition of any promise God made either then or since of perpetual prosperity to the godly and adversity to the wicked but from an human short-sighted non-consideration of the future endless happiness of the one and destruction of the other which only is the word of the Almighty and shall stand fast for ever But we will needs conceive their end already past when they are but entring upon an eternity of being 4. That temporal prosperity under the new Testament is not to be denyed to the godly see Mark 10. 30. 1 Tim. 4. 8. Matt. 5. 5. comp Psal. 37. 11. from which it seems to be taken Jam. 5. 11. Where the Apostle proposeth Job's reprosperity for an example to Christians And that long life promised to obedience to parents and blessings not only upon themselves but their children to those who obey Gods Commandements are since the Gospel antiquated and these events altered who dares to affirm Or what good man is there that hath not long stories of Gods several temporal merâ—…ies to him in this world And when I consider the temporal condition of the greatest sufferers tho 't is true 1 Cor. 15. 19. to the eye of men and the little enjoyment of any good things of this life they are of all men most miserable yet in such condition for the present also they seem of men the most happy only if you suppose their hopes to be true for I find them tho not freed from adversities yet alwaies sure of protection in and deliverance from them See S. Pauls words 2 Cor. 1. 10. and 2 Tim. 4. 17 18. agreeing with the doctrine of Ps. 37. and Ps. 34. 19. So that his bonds assured with such mercies made others bold and Phil. 1. 12. c. and their joyes solid and true and not counterfeit and far exceeding and making them even senseless of their sorrows see 2 Cor. 1. and when I look on their life ending in a violent painful and ignominious death yet when I consider the wages for it it seems that it ought not to be called an affliction but an extraordinary service undertaken for to attain a greater reward eternal then others shall have who take not the same pains See Heb. 11. 35 26. But concerning temporal prosperity of Saints two things we must note 1. That it is not for the most part so constant as the wicked's is see the reason before because all men sinning the just God punisheth in this world those of his servants c. the reason of this because he punisheth them not hereafter but according to the qualification inserted Mark. 10. 30. interlined with afflictions and consists more in protection in and deliverance from then vacancy of all crosses yet which things make it to them infinitely more pleasant as war and conquest is then a constant peace and hunger and a feast then constant satiety and that it is a happiness as succeeding evils so succeeded by them like the condition described Psal. 106. but good and peace alwaies the last Ps. 37. 37. 2. That when it is it is more secret and within and less discerned whereas that of the wicked is more external and specious and obvious to the eye So that the world sees much more of the one and much less of the other then indeed there is To conclude this point from the premises I think we may safely pronounce 1. That a constant prosperity excepting some evils of no moment hath sometimes happened to the wicked but never to any good man 2. That constant adversity never happened either to evil or good Not to the evil because they purchase evil to come only by the pleasures of some present sins nor to the good because God delivers as he afflicts 3. That to the good more worldly dissatisfaction then worldly content either from his not having or at least his not using and enjoying its good things 1 Cor. 7. 29. hath alwaies happened 4. That for the people and Church of God in general ever since the beginning the latter afflictions thereof have been and shall be still greater greater therefore under the times of the Gospel then of the law see Matt. 10. 34. and greater still the deliverances all Glory be to the infinite wisdom of
general i. e. in respect of all persons and of all Covenants made with and promises made to them but only to those times in respect of the covenant of works which then by the errour of many of the Jews the children of works was generally more looked after then the Covenant of faith which had then but few followers see Rom. 9. 31 32. when also the one Covenant was more largely and legibly drawn in great Characters the other put forth more obscure and in a lesser Print and a veil drawn over it 2 Cor. 3. 14. till the fulness of time was come Therefore also the former times had the denomination of the times of the law the latter of the Gospel And again in respect of the literal promise under the law of felicity in the earthly Canaan Therefore where the Apostle saith established on better promises understand there those typical ones of earthly Canaan made to Israel at the promulgation of the law Or opposed to those times in general but this only first in respect of the diverse administrations of the former times with many troublesome ceremonials and types to be afterward abolished and of the degrees of the greater manifestations in the latter times of the way of salvation being void of shadows types and figures all these now being brought to perfection and accomplishment in the incarnation of the Son effusions of the Spirit enlargement of the Church promulgation of an Heavenly country instead of an Earthly Canaan and from these greater manifestations many more of the children of works becoming now the children of faith And from its stronger beams as well those illuminated who before sate in darkness Luk. 1. 79. and midnight as this light increased to those who had before some dawnings thereof And secondly in respect of the accomplishment of those promises to the faithful of the former ages which are made thro Christ spoken of Heb. 11. 13 14 16. In which they could not be compleated and perfected before the times of the Gospel neither in respect of the body they waiting for the restorement of that till those of the Gospel are glorified with them nor according to the reverend opinion of Antiquity in respect of the soul they not having the kingdom of heaven laid fully opened unto them till our Saviour was first entred in thither See Eph. 1. 10. Col. 1. 20. Heb. 11. 39 40. -12. 23. For indeed the performance and perfection of the mystery of mans redemtion was a thing only received in the last daies And tho the virtue of Christs incarnation is communicated alwaies to all men yet not the latter times on the former but the former depend on the latter for the substance and ground of their hope and salvation Jesus Christ come in the flesh These having the body of which body coming toward them the other had the shadow Col. 2. 17. And in these respects the times of the Gospel are said to have so much advantage of those of the law we seeing in a clear glass Gods glory they thro a thick veil we 2 Cor. 3. 13. standing in a clear whereas the best of them in a dim light and the most of them in utter darkness See Matt. 13. 17. -11. 11. 1 Cor. 2. 10. c. 2 Cor. 3. 7. c. Here note that the oppositions of the times that are used in the other heads preceding in which I follow only the phrase of the Holy Scriptures are by these limitations so to be interpreted as that they no way contradict the doctrine of this last chapter FINIS §. 1. Jâ—…sus Christ the truth in the fulness of time Sent. § 2. § 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. §. 4. § 5. Anointed §. 6. A new Law-giver for the law moral 1. Expounding it 2. Requiring stricter obedience 3. Denouncing heavier judgments §. 7. Ministring the spirit § 8. Abrogating the letter § 9. For the law ceremonial Cancelling it § 10. 2 An Apostle of the Gospel §. 11. Preaching it §. 12. Remitting sins giving the Holy Ghost admitting into the kingdom of Heaven §. 13. Before his departure ordaining others §. 14. Transferring his authority to them §. 15. § 16. §. 17. Assisting them from Heaven §. 18. §. 19. Those ordaining others to the end of the world §. 20. He assisting their Successors for ever §. 21. The Apostles also delegating to them the authority received from Him §. 22. The truth of our Saviours doctrines c. attested by 1. Scripture 2 Spirâ—…t 3. Miracles 4. Death §. 23. And a resurrection The way § 1. Christ an Example 1 In doing the work In all obedience to Gods commandements Moral §. 2. Ceremonial § 3. 2 In all sufferings for righteousness sake §. 4. 2 In receiving the reward §. 1. Christ Mediator of the new Covenant §. 2. Enlarged Established 〈◊〉 â—…tter promises §. 4. § 5. The blood of this â—…ovenant §. 6. The Death ratifying this Testament § 7. Performance of tâ—…e promiâ—…es put into his hands revived §. 1. Christ the Sacrifice §. 2. §. 3. §. 4. §. â—… 〈◊〉 1 Sin-offering for remission of guilt §. 6. 2 For puriâ—…ing uncleannesses §. 7. 3 Holocavst §. 8. 4 Eucharistical Peace or thank-offering §. 9. §. 9. §. 10. By eating of which we have Communion 1. with God 2 With his Son and all that is his §. 11. 3 With the Saints and all that is theirs §. 12. And are preserved in both soul and body unto life eternal §. 13. 4 The â—…over § 1. 5. Mans debt to and bondage under 1 Sin §. 2. 2 The law §. 3. 3 Death § 4. 4 Satan 1 As the executioner of Gods justice 2 As Prince of this world §. 5. §. 6. Christ our Redeemer 1 By paying a ransom freeing us from debt §. 7. 2 By making a Conquest freeâ—… us from slavery §. 8. Our Redemption not yet fully perfected §. 9. And why §. 10. How much already performed 1 In respect of sin §. 11. 2 Of the law §. 12. Of Death §. 13. Of Satan § 〈◊〉 §. 1. Christ the second Adam Dependent 〈◊〉 God the Father Before his Incarnation §. 2. Much more after it §. 3. Assuming the infirmities of human nature § 4. Receiving the perfections of it from God his Father §. 5. §. 6. §. 7. A Covenant made with the second Adam as with the first involuving his seed §. 8. He fulfils it By walkâ—… 〈◊〉 a quite contrary way to the first §. 9. §. 10. Receives the reâ—…ard For himself For â—…is sâ—…d 1 The Spirit 2 Life §. 11. His particular benefits 1 As our â—…ead communicates absolution from sin by his death for it § 12. Baptism incorporating us into his death The Sacrament of pardon §. 13. 2 As our â—…ead communicates righteousness or life spiritual by his Resurrection 1 〈◊〉 us to perform 〈◊〉 2 Compleating our imperfect righteousness 3 As our head communicates glory or life eternal in our resurrection §. 14. 1 Effected by the same spirit