〈◊〉 a second Adam of a more glorious Persoâ— to be brought forth in the Humane Naturâ— and of the Seed of the Woman or that thâ—â— could possibly ever be that a clean thing should be brought forth out of an unclean But behold here the Wisdom of God defeating the subtilty and the power of God defeating the malice and power of the Devil who had now got the Power of Death in his Hand as Heb. 2.14 had got the Keys of Hell and Death and had as he thought loâ—â— up Adam and all Mankind with him so fast â—ithin these Gates that none could come to â—eliver him but behold the second Adam Christ Jesus by the Power of God of the â—eed of the Woman holy harmless and â—eparate from sinners being conceived in the Womb of the Virgin and born of her withâ—ut sin according to the Promise made to Adam and now declared immediately after his fall Gen. 3.15 The Seed of the Woman shall bruise thy i. e. The Serpents Head And here as the Serpent had deceived the Woman and brought her first into the transgression so this old Serpent the Devil was deceived by the Woman of whose Seed by the Power of the highest is brought forth this second Adam this man Christ Jesus who is made a quickning Spirit 1 Cor. 15.45 to quicken or make alive that which was dead as ver 22. who also was not as the first Adam of the earth earthy and therefore easily overcome as he was but the Lord from Heaven as ver 47. and therefore able to raise up all his after his own Image to bear the Image of the Heavenly as ver 49. and to triumph over Death and Hell as ver 55 56 57. Oh Death where is thy Sting And thus the admirable Power of God was manifest in bringing forth such a person as Jesus Christ in the Humane Nature Jesus Christ the Righteous and the propitiation for our sins and our Advocate with the Father whose office and work it was to bring down this Righteousness of God from Heaven to us 2. Instance The Infinite and Eternal Power of God was also as much seen and manifested in Christ bearing our sins in this Humane Nature in his own Body on the Tree and first let us consider what a burden what a weight sin and the guilt of sin is when it is charged and laid upon the Conscience by the Power of God and this may be considered in the Angels that sinned Angels are greater in power than we as 2 Pet. 2.11 Angels that excel in strength or Psal. 103.20 Angels who are Spirits i. e. not flesh and blood as we are weak and feeble Angels that are not hay and stubble as we are but a flaming Fire Psalm 104 4 yet these high and mighty Angel these strong and powerful Angels that were naturally the first-born of Gods first or old Creation and the excellency of Creature strength when they had once sinned and God comes to charge them with Folly and lay the guilt and punishment of sin upon them how doth it sink and break all the Powers and Spirits of the Angelical Nature and casteth them down into the deepest darkness and despair and that from the highest light glory and confidence of their First and Heavenly state and presently cast them down from Heaven to Hell 2 Pet. 2.4 so unable were they each of them to bear the burden i. e. the guilt and punishment of their own Sin And 2. Let us consider sin in man and how unable man is to stand when God shall mark Iniquity as Psal. 130. 3. If thou Lord shouldst mark Iniquities O Lord who shall stand i. e. none shall or can stand no Nation or Kingdom no House or Family no Person under Heaven no not the Church or People of God can stand if God should mark Iniquity and punish Sin but with his Temporal Wrath and Judgments in this World there is none could possibly stand for who can stand when God is Angry And who knoweth the power of his Wrath The Sinners of the old World did know something of it but they could not stand before it it swept them all away with the Waters of a Flood And whither did it sweep them It swept them down to Hell 1 Pet. 3.19 The Spirits now in Prison and that Prison is the Prison of Hell Luke 16.23 And in Hell c. The Sinners also of Sodom and Gomorrah did know somewhat of this Wrath but they could not stand before it They could no longer as stout and hard hearted as they were bear up under this burden and weight of their own Sin for it brought a dreadful shower of Divine Vengeance upon them a Shower of Fire and Brimstone from the Lord out of Heaven by which they all perished as Gen. 19.24 25. Francis Spira also knew somewhat of this Wrath and Burden of his own Sin when God laid it upon his Conscience in the guilt and punishment due to it but he could not stand but went despairing out of this World and without any hope or comfort as to the next as to what did appear And it may be some of you here present and if you have not I am sure others have known something of this matter when God hath been angry but for a moment and hath laid sin in the guilt of it upon Conscience It made them sink immediately under utmost despair and bereaved them of all hope comfort and patience that had not Infinite Mercy stept in to their relief they had gone despairing down to Hell The damned Spirits in Hell know more of the Power of Gods anger and the weight and burden of Sin laid upon their awakened and terrified Consciences than any in this World have done or can do and their Torments are intollerable Luke 16.24 There the Worm dieth not and the Fire is not quenched They are for their sin a Sacrifice to Divine Wrath and they are salted with Fire and salted with Salt and so are eternally Roasting in the Fire of Hell Mar. 9.48 49. and yet they do not know all the Power of Gods Wrath nor feel all the tormenting Power of the Fire of Hell they feel much and fear more They suffer that which is intollerable and yet they fear what they have not yet felt but must further feel and suffer to all Eternity Oh Eternity Eternity Oh the Wrath of God that is not only eternal but infinite They know not the utmost they know not the end of it nor can know For that which is Infinite hath no bounds or limits and that which is Eternal hath no end Therefore last of all Now consider this second Adam the Man Christ Jesus who though he had no sin of his own to answer to God for for he did no sin nor was guile found in his Mouth Isa. 53.9 He knew no sin as 2 Cor. 5.21 yet he had the sin of the World i. e. Jew and Gentile laid upon him and did bear it in his
because reconciliation supposeth a breach first made by sin now the breach made betwixt God and Man by sin was not from Eternity but in time and therefore reconciliation could not be from Eternity and without reconciliation by shedding of blood there is no remission as Heb. 9.22 i. e. No Justification to the Church of Gods Elect for Remission of sins is their Justification Part. 3. This Doctrine of Justification from Eternity destroyeth and overthroweth the true Doctrine of Justification it self also which is another fundamental point of the Christian Faith and therefore this Doctrine of Justification from Eternity cannot be true Now the true Doctrine of Justification is that Act of Gods Grace passed or put forth upon the person Elect whereby of a guilty ungodly and unrighteous person before he is really made and doth become a righteous person in Gods sight through Faith in his Son Jesus Christ given unto him I say he is made and doth become a righteous person in Gods sight and that really and not by opinion only as some would imagine and here are two things to be cleared as namely 1. That every man in this World is really made and doth become a guilâ—y and condemned person in Gods sight by the first sin of Adam justly imputed to him by the Law so Rom. 3.9 10 and again ver 19 20. which the Apostle plainly affirmeth by a comparison of the two Adam's Rom. 5.19 For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners c. ver 18. Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came or it came upon all men to condemnation in Gods sight So that 't is plain the many ver 19. is all men ver 18. even the Elect of God as well as others 2. That as in the first Adam all men did become and were really made sinners in Gods sight by the just imputation of Adam's sin to them by the Law even so in Christ many as v. 19. or all men as ver 18. i. e. all that believe are justified i. e. are made and do become righteous in Gods sight through Faith in Christ by the righteousness of one or by the obedience of one justly imputed to them by the Law of Faith and Grace So that as before Justification every man was really a guilty and unrighteous person in Gods sight So now that Faith in Christ is come every man that believeth is justified and doth become and is made a righteous person in Gods sight So that Justification maketh a real change of State from a state of sin and unrighteousness and death to a state of Grace Righteousness and Life Now therefore he that is Justified from Eternity was from Eternity in a state of Grace Righteousness and Life and never was in a state of Sin Unrighteousness and Death he never was a Sinner Ungodly and condemned in Gods sight and Sin had never raigned in him unto Death in whom Grace had raigned unto Life through Righteousness from all Eternity but the contrary is true in all them whom God Justifieth as Rom. 4.5 Now to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his Faith is counted for Righteousness and Rom. 5.6 For when we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the Ungodly and v. 21. That as sin hath reigned unto death even so might Grace reign through Righteousness unto Eternal Life by Jesus Christ our Lord So that we who are now Justified by Faith in Christ were without strength were ungodly were under the reign of Sin unto Death but he that was Justified from Eternity was never any of these and therefore no man was or could be Justified from Eternity there is a contradiction in the things themselves and therefore this Doctrine is inconsistent with the truth for Sin did not reign unto death in any from Eternity but in Time therefore Grace could not reign through Righteousness unto Life in any from Eternity but in time Part. 4. This Doctrine of Justification from Eternity destroyeth also the Doctrine of Adoption which inseparably followeth Justification and is another inseparable point of the Christian Faith I say Adoption followeth and is an inseparable companion of Justification by Faith in Christ he that is Justified by Faith in Christ is also adopted and taken into the number of Gods Sons or Children by the same Faith as Gal 3.24.25.26 That we might be justified by Faith v 24. But after that Faith is come v. 25. Ye are all the Children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus by the same faith by which any man is Justified by the same Faith also he is Adopted and made a Son or Child of God and so again Gal. 4 4 5 7. Now no man was Adopted from Eternity and therefore no man was Justified from Eternity And he that was Adopted from Eternity was never a Servant but a Son was never a Child of Disobedience a Child of Wrath as Ephes. 2.2 3. but a Child of God from eternity and then there never could be any Predestination to the Adoption of Children as Ephes. 1.5 that the Adoption of Children had been from eternity Part. 5. This Doctrine of Justification from Eternity denieth destroyeth and overthroweth by consequence the truth and doctrine of discrimination or making a difference betwixt the state of Nature and the state of Grace which the holy Scriptures do every where establish The state of Nature according the Scriptures is a state of Sin and so of Death and Condemnation as hath been already shewed But the state of Grace is a state of Righteousness and so of Life and Justification as hath also been declared through Faith in the Son of God Rom. 9.30 and Rom. 10.4 John 5.24 and 1 John 4.14 Now he that saith he was Justified from Eternity saith that he was in a state of Life from Eternity and by consequence never was in a state of Sin and Death for Justification is Life as Condemnation is Death Rom. 5.18 but most certain it is that all were dead and in a state of sin and condemnation before they believed on Christ even the Elect of God as well as others as 2 Cor. 5.14 And the death of Christ for all the Elect doth prove that they were all dead and in a state of Death Jews and Gentiles for else Christ needed not to have died for them and the love of Christ doth constrain all them to acknowledge that they were dead and therefore are debtors to Christ for their Life and Justification through Faith in him and so no more to live to themselves but to him that died for them and rose again The words are most plain and the sense most genuine For the love of Christ constraineth us because we thus judge that if one died for all then were all dead And that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which died for them and rose again Therefore seeing they were once dead
therein for the propitiation of their Sins as Rom. 3.25 whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through Faith in his blood to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins and v. 26. to declare I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which beâ—elieveth â—n Jesus Neg. But as concerning the Doctrine of Justification from the time of Christs Death and Resurrection more or rather than any other time or that the Church of Gods Elect are justified from the time of Christs Death or Resurrection we do utterly deny and reject and say the justification of his Body the Church doth no more commence from or depend upon the time of his Death and Resurrection than upon any other time before or after for 1 st If the justification of Gods Elect did commence from and depend upon the time of Christs Death and Resurrection so that they were not nor could be justified before that time then all those that were fallen asleep in Christ before the time of Christs Death and Resurrection are perished as 1 Cor 15.18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished The Consequence is plain and invincible for if they were not justified their Sins were imputed and not forgiven and if so then they died in their Sins and so are perished as John 8.12 If ye believe not that I am he ye shall die in your sins and this is eternal perdition or to perish for ever if they were not justified they were not righteous righteousness was not imputed to them and so they neither did not could inherit the Kingdom of God as 1 Cor. 6.9 Know ye not that the Unrighteous or Unjustified shall not inherit the Kingdom of God And so Abel Enoch Noah Abraham Isaac and Jacob Moses and Samuel and all the Prophets until John are perished and excluded out of the Kingdom of God yea John Baptist â—lso is perished and good old Simeon that took the Babe in his arms and blessed him and said Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace according so thy word for mine eyes have seen thy Salvation Luke 2.29 30 and Anna the Prophetess also v. 36. are perished For all these died before the time of Christs Death and Resurrection as is most plain and manifest But now these are not perished but were justified by Faith in their Life time and blessed in their death and live now unto God eternally in the Mansions of Heavenly Glory and for all this we have a sure word of Prophecy Abraham lived 430 years before the Law of Moses and above 2000 years before Christ came in the flesh and 30 years more before Christs Death and Resurrection and yet was as much justified by Faith in Christ as any man ever since or that will be to the end of the World and so were all the rest aforementioned and therefore justification is not reckoned from the time of Christs Death and Resurrection seeing all these were justified so long before that time 2. Then Christ himself is found a false Witness who came from the bosom of the Father and could declare and did declare the truth as John 1.18 I say then Christ himself is found a false Witness who testified of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets to be in the Kingdom of God Luke 13.28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God and you your selves thrust oâ—â— Now who are these ye and your selves these are many such as lived in and after the time of Christs Death and Resurrection and great Professors too as appeareth v. 26. When they shall say we have eat and drank in thy presence and thou hast taught in our Streets and also in that parallel place Mat. 7.22 Have we not Prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out Devils and in thy name have done many wonderful works all which must be after the time of Christs Death and Resurrection for the Spirit was not given for these extraordinary works and miracles till Christ was glorified and yet saith Christ ye shall see Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God and ye your selves thrust out so that those that lived before the time of my Death and Resurrection as Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets ye shall see them hereafter when that day shall come which revealeth all things ye shall see them in the Kingdom of God and ye your selves who lived professed my name Prophesied and did miracles in my name after the time of my Death and Resurrection ye shall see your selves thrust out and though you cast out Devils in my name yet ye did not cast him out nor was he cast out of your own hearts But Christs Witness is most true and will be found so at the great day therefore let men take heed how they make him a Liar who is Truth it self for certainly Christ did not bear false witness when he testified to the Sick of the Palsie Mark 2.5 Son thy Sins be forgiven thee and when he testified in the House of Simon concerning the Woman that was and had been a great Sinner when she washed Christs feet with her tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and brake so costly a Box of Ointment and poured it upon his head that all the room was filled with the odour thereof I say when he testified to Simon and all that were in the house concerning her Luc. 7.47 Wherefore I say unto thee her Sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much and when he testified to her v. 48. And he said unto her thy Sins are forgiven Forgiveness of Sins is justification and they had Faith in Christ wrought in them for Mark 2.5 when Jesus saw their Faith and Luke 7.50 And he said to the Woman thy Faith hath saved thee and yet the time of Christs Death and Resurrection was not yet come so that justification and Salvation through Faith in Christ was as sure and certain and as full and compleat to them that believed before the time of Christs Death and Resurrection as ever it was to any since or shall be to the end of the World therefore the justification of Gods Elect is no more dated or doth commence from the time of Christs death than from any time before or after 3. If the justification of Gods Elect should commence and bear date from the time of Christs Death and Resurrection then thousands of Gods Elect that were Born were Converted and called and have believed on Christ since the time of Christs Death and Resurrection in Ages and Generations until now were justified before they were Converted and Called before they receiv'd the Spirit by the hearing of Faith before they believed God or his word before they had any Faith wrought in them for they were
justified from the time of Christs death according to this Doctrine so that they were as much and as truly justified in their unbelief impiety unregeneracy and enmity as ever they were or came to be justified afterwards when they believed and embraced Christ which is most contrary to the Scriptures Acts 13.38 39 Rom. 4.23 Ephes. 2.11 12 13. and Rom. 8.30 Whom he called them be also justified Paul when Saul a Blasphemer Persecutor and Iniurious was as truly justified as Paul when called a Convert a Believer and a Preacher of Jesus Christ contrary to the Scriptures 1 Tim. 1.13 14 15 16. and Acts 22.16 For Saul continued Unconverted Uncalled a Blasphemer a Persecutor and Injurious Ignorant and an Unbeliever long after Christs Death and Resurrection and yet according to this Doctrine must be justified when he lived and continued in impenitency and unbelief and disobedience till that time yea and all those Corinthians mentioned 1 Cor. 6 11. And such were some of you But ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Now look back into the 9. and 10. verses Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Be not deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor efeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God And such were some of you Plainly implying that when ye lived in these sins uncalled unconverted impenitent and unbelievers then you were not washed nor sanctified nor justified but now since you were called and converted 't is otherwise with you than it was before But ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Ye were not justified before but now ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus i. e. since ye believed on that name then ye were not washed nor sanctified while ye wallowed in the mire of these sins but now ye are washed ye are sanctified by the Spirit of our God Therefore they were not justified from the time of Christs death and resurrection but from the time of their calling to Faith â—n Christ who dyed and rose again long before And that this must be the true sense of the Apostle appeareth in that he tells them but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus He thereby concludeth and that truly they were not justified before though the time of Christs Death and Resurrection was past before And thus have we finished also the tryal of this second Opinion or Doctrine of Justification from the time of Christs Death and Resurrection and find it not to be a true Doctrine a Doctrine not of God All therefore which now remaineth to be done is to shew and assign the true time and season of Gods Justifying his Elect and from whence the truly justified person may humbly date his own Justification according to the holy Scriptures and have the seal of God in the true witness of his holy Spirit in the word for the proof it Lastly therefore The due time and season of Gods justifying his Elect through Faith in his Son Jesus Christ according to the Scriptures is the time of their respective believing embracing receiving and entertaining Christ Christ in the promise or the promise in Christ for all the promises are yea and Amen in Christ 2 Cor. 1.20 Not a promise alone without Christ for that is to be suspected the promise when given by the Father and applyed by the Spirit is never alone or separate from Christ but always in Christ and together with him Even as Abraham is said to have received the promises when he offered up his only Son Heb. 11.17 But Abraham did not receive the promise or promises alone i. e. without Christ the substance of all the promises but he received the promise in Christ or Christ in and through the promises For as God made no promise of Eternal Life out of Christ but in Christ and through him so we can receive no promise or promises of Eternal Life and Salvation but in Christ and Christ in and together with the promise And therefore Abraham is said to have received the promise of God in Christ as God gave it to him so he received it in Christ as Gal. 3.16 17 18. He therefore that believeth with a justifying and saving Faith receiveth Christ in the promises and embraceth not the promises alone but Christ in the promise and therefore union with Christ and receiving Christ into the heart and promises and all things else together is the true Faith of Gods Elect and the Faith of the operation of God as 1 John 5.11 12. This is the reward that God hath given to us Eternal Life and this Life is in his Son He that hath the Son hath Life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life and Joh. 1.11 12. He came to his own and his own received him not But to as many as received him to them gave he power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe on his name So that in short Faith is receiving Christ and without Christ be received there is no believing and where there is no believing there is no justification The true time therefore of God's justifying his Elect is the time of their believing i. e. of their receiving and embracing Christ then and not before and thence ever after God doth justifie his Elect And they may from thence date the time of their justification acccording to the Scriptures As it was with Abraham so it is with all the Children of Abraham as it is written again and again Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for Righteousness Rom. 4.3 Now from the time that Abraham believed God from that time was he justified and ever after even so it is with all the Children of Abraham as Rom 4.23 24 25. Now it was not written for Abrahams sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed If we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the Dead who was delivered for our Offences and raised again for our Justification Now therefore Christian the time of Gods imputing Righteousness to thee and justifying thee in Christ is not the time of Christs dying and rising again but the time of thy beâ—ieving on him and embracing him by Faith in thy heart who was deliver'd for thy offences and raised again for thy justification And to produce this Faith in thee and this believing God as Abraham did these three things must necessarily concur all which did concur in the Faith of Abraham as namely 1. There must be hearing The word of God must be truly preached to thee and thou must hear it or there neither is nor can be thâ—s Faith that justifieth
and in a state of Death and Condemnation they were not justified from Eternity no not one of them that Live and are Justified by Faith in Christ for they all and always thus judge that they were all dead i e. condemned and not justified before they believed in Christ and do freely confess the truth and therefore not one of them doth profess or can profess any such Faith that he was Justified from Eternity Part. 6. This Doctrine of Justification from Eternity denyeth and overthroweth the Doctrine of Regeneration or new Birth and the necessity thereof which Christ himself doth plainly affirm and urge upon every man in this World John 3.3 5 8. and so do all the holy Prophets and Apostles as may be easily proved if there were any so bold as to deny it Now he that is Justified by Faith in Christ and hath this power and priviledge given unto him to become a Son of God as every true believer hath John 1.11 12. he also is born of God as John 1.13 which were born not of blood nor of the Will of the Flesh nor of the Will of Man but of God as James 1.18 Of his own Will begat he us by the Word of Truth not one Believer and so Justified person in this World but he is born of God and begotten of God and so is born again as 1 Pet. 1.23 being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever ver 25. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is Preached unto you so that not one person is or can be justified by Faith but at the same time and by the same word of Faith Preached to him and Believed by him he is also born again he therefore that saith he was justified from Eternity saith also that he was born of God from Eternity and he that was born of God from Eternity needeth not nor can be born again for Regeneration is but once and those that were born of God from Eternity are far from being new born Babes as all true Believers are after their first Conversion and Calling and as the Apostle Peter calleth and styleth them 1 Pet. 2.2 3. Part. 7. This Doctrine of Justification from Eternity denieth destroyeth and overthroweth the Doctrine of Repentance and Conversion to God by Christ and by consequence takes away the necessity thereof the holy Scriptures do every where establish both in the Old and New Testament the necessity of Repentance and Conversion to God as Isa. 55.6 7. Act. 3.19 Act. 26.17 18. Luke 24.45 46 47. But he that saith he was justified from Eternity by consequence saith that he had remission of Sins from Eternity and that his Sins were blotted out from Eternity for Justification is Remission of Sins as Psalm 32.1 2 3. And blotting out of Sins as Isa. 43.25 And so he needeth not to Repent and be Converted for asmuch as he had his sins blotted out from Eternity and was Righteous from Eternity and well it is if men of these notions and traditions which they have received to hold do not become as the Pharisees of old so Whole as they need no Physician and so Righteous in their own Eyes that like the 99 Just Persons they need no Repentance or Conversion as Luke 15.4 8. And if the name of Repentance and Conversion shall still be pretended to and boasted of amongst them it shall only consist in making Proselytes to this their Tradition of Justification from Eternity which they call the Gospel and a more glorious Light than former Ages have enjoyed And some have not blushed to affirm than perhaps the Apostles had But let them take heed lest that Wo come upon them spoken by the Mouth of Truth himself Mat. 23.15 Part. 8. This Doctrine doth frustrate and make void all the ends of Christ Death and Suffering which are the Justification and Salvation of Gods Elect for if they were Justified from Eternity what need was there of Christs dying to obtain that for them which they had from all Eternity So that if this Doctrine be true as they affirm then as the Apostle saith in another case Gal. 2.21 Christ is dead in vain Part 9. This Doctrine of Justification from Eternity destroyeth and overthroweth the Doctrine and Order of God's new Creation in Christ and making all things new in him which the Holy Scriptures do every where establish both in the Old and New Testament This is certain the Old Creation was first and before the New else it were not new Adam was before Christ or the first Adam before the Second as Rom. 4.12 and 1 Cor. 15.45 46 47. And so it is written the first man Adam was made a living Soul the last Adam was made a quickning Spirit howbeit that was not first which is Spiritual but that which is Natural and afterward that which is Spiritual The first or old Creation in Adam is the natural and the second or new Creation in Christ the Spiritual now that was not first which is Spiritual but that is first which was natural therefore the Workmanship of God in the natural or old creation was first And the workmanship of God in the new Creation in Christ is the Spirâ—tual and therefore last the second must be after the first or else 't is not second the new must be after the old or else the old is not old nor the other new Now Justification by Faith in Christ is Gods Workmanship in the new Creation as 2 Cor. 5.17 18. Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new Creature old things i. e. the things of the first Creation in Adam are passed away behold all things are become new And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ. And therefore Reconciliation and Justification by Jesus Christ as ver 19. are parts of the new Creation in Christ as also is most manifest Eph. 2.8 9 10. 't is manifest I say that God at first setled all things So the first Adam and all men in him upon the foundation of the Law or Covenant of Works which settlement was broken or dissolved by the first transgression and Death entred upon all men by Sin and no hope or possibility of Righteousness or Life by that Law or Covenant any more therefore now God bringeth forth Christ the second Adam and settles all things again upon a new Covenant of Grace restoring Righteousness and Life by Jesus Christ to all that believe this is the new Creation that which is Spiritual Now therefore Justification and Salvation by Faith in Christ was not from Eternity because 't is Gods new Creation in Christ And forasmuch as the Old Creation and that which is Natural was not from Eternity but in Time 'T is manifest that Gods new Creation in Christ to any man in this World was not from Eternity but in Time for the first must be before the second and the old