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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

fall under Judgment from Him to Condemnation So the Many even the All in Christ in whom All Vnbelievers and Impenitent are not receive Righteousness to the Justification of Life All therefore who being cut out of the old stock of Apostate Adam and are engrafted into the New Second Last Adam by Humiliation Faith Repentance the New Creation are so one Spirit and one Body with Him that his Righteousness overflows them All as naturally as what is the Heads flows down on all the Members as the Root is the Branches the Husbands Glory and Riches the Wifes the Parents the Childrens or the Things of a Mans self the Things of his whole self Vse Look well then to this Implantation into Christ and Vnion with Him that it be as real as our Being in Adam Proposition 8. To the Great Difficulty that The Reign of Grace Righteousness and Life above the Reign of Sin and Death on both sides the Proposition v. 17. v. 21. may Arise to Consciences concerning the Impossibility of this Implantation to Christ by any Faculties or Powers of our own the Apostle hath insinuated Great Consolation in those two Forms of speaking As Judgment by the Offence of one to Condemnation so by the Righteousness of one to the Justification of Life signifying that as Judgment burst out from Adams Sin so from the Second Adams Righteousness Justification of Life is even in Pain and violent to break out Whoever therefore in another Expression v. 17. Receives its Abundance It flows amain upon him If we had therefore but the Heart the Mind the Soul to Receive it It could not but be ours A Heart set upon Christ and his Grace according to those Expressions c. 8. v. 6. c. of Solomons Song shall certainly have it Thus free is the way of having this free Gift It is True It must be a full and compleat desire like that to the Pearl of Great Price Matt. 13. 45. so it is fit It should be for such a Pearl Vse Oh how do we perish for want of desire to Christ for want of will to come to Him that we may have Life He justly perishes who will not desire such a Good with a desire answerable to it Proposition 9. But seeing there is a multitude of Mankind in Adam who perish How can the Grace of Christ be commensurate to and equal much less surmount Adams Offence To this it may be answered the Holy Seed are the whole Substance of Mankind All else being not of the Renewed Humane Nature of Christ are not accounted His All or any of His or for his Seed but sink down first into Earth or meer Body then into sensitive Soul a Nature more below Christs Humane Nature then the brutal below the rational Humane Nature And at last the higher Souls or Spirits of Men not Partakers of the Divine Nature by Christ and in Christ become of the kind and species of Devils or fallen Angels according to James 3. 15 16 17. and carry the whole man with them Yet is the number of the saved in Christ an incomprehensible great Number a number that no one can number and Revel 7. 9. Jesus Christ at the Head of that General Assembly with the innumerable Company of Angels makes them as far beyond the Account of the Lost as substantial Heb. 12. 23 Figures are beyond never so innumerable Cyphers These are the First Born who have the Inheritance Vse Be not therefore discouraged but strive the more Be in an Agony to enter for Luc. 13. 24. though many strive to enter and are not able yet the Truer more substantial number the Jewels the Vessels unto Honour the precious Gold and Silver the Wheat are sav'd which are also beyond number The Dross the Refuse the Chaff the Tares the Vessels to Dishonour are only the Lost And if a Man purge Himself from these He shall be a Vessel 2 Tim. 2. 21. unto Honour Sanctified Meet for the Masters Vse ready to every good Work Proposition 10. The Reign in and unto Eternal Life in Christ is so much above the Reign of Death from Adam that it infinitely surpasses and surmounts the whole Condemnation and Death by Adam The Blessedness of separate Spirits before the Resurrection The incomparable Glory of the First Resurrection and of a part in it in the Paradise of God in the New Jerusalem in the Restitution of All Things in the New Heaven and the New Earth in the Glorious Kingdom of Christ The Blessedness of Saints being with Christ and beholding the Glory he had with the Father who loved him before the World was and being so embraced into this Love that this Love is in the Saints and Christ in them in the pure and perfect Eternity when God shall John 17. 24. 26. be All in All. All these are so beyond All that Eye hath seen or Ear hath heard or that hath entred into the Heart of Man to conceive that we cannot know it For we shall be like Him and see Him as He is This swallows all Objection from the Fewness of the sav'd and shews the Reign of Grace to Life above Deaths Reign Vse But Let Him that hath this Hope purifie Himself even as He is pure And that no Man may think this a Licencious Doctrine let him consider the Doctrine of Gospel Sanctification flowing from and along with this Doctrine of Grace by Christ the Mediator in whom All Dye to Sin Rise to Righteousness in and with Him have part for part Grace for Grace answering to his Righteousness in inward Righteousness of which the Apostle treats in the following Chapters and wherein by Gods Grace my Discourse shall follow Him

But not as the Son of God in our Nature as was before set out in the Life of Righteousness Christ is the Lord of Life and Glory the Resurrection and the Life which Adam could not be but when that Life God Gave Him was Lost as He 〈◊〉 not keep it so He could not restore it but in Adam All Dye All in Christ are made Alive 1 Cor. 15. 21 22. But that we may … ther Understand the Great Wi●●●m of God in making such a Head as Adam was at first who thereby became a Figure of Him that was to Be and that It was to the Great Good of Mankind considered in it self will thus Appear 1. God who certainly Knows what was Best for his own Creation and particularly for the Humane Creation dispos'd it thus as most secure for it under a Common Head and Mediator therein Fore-shewing the Lasting Happiness of Mankind in Christ For thus no single Person would be in danger to be Lost but the whole secur'd in One viz. in one Common Head Answering for All. 2. This One was the Common Parent of all Mankind and so had a Parental Love and Care ingrafted into Him by God for his Posterity the Remains of which we see now how strongly It Acts among Men. 3. He was Accomplish'd with All Powers of Standing so that nothing lay upon Him but to Hold what He Had and to Live in the Constant Exercise and display of it 4. It was but One Instance or Act of Obedience upon which the whole Righteousness and Happiness of Man was suspended viz. His not Eating the Forbidden Fruit the singular Test and proof God put upon Him of his Love and Fidelity to Himself and in which All his Holy and Excellent State as by one unlooseable Knot if not Cut by Sin was kept strait and entire of which the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was a Sacrament and standing Admonition 5. It is most Reasonable to believe there was a certain determinate Time and that but short wherein Adam's Obedience was to be Try'd and if He had stood that Shock and Resisted the Temptation He and his Posterity had been confirm'd for ever In him therefore Humane Nature had the fullest and fairest View It could have and the most ample Advantages for it self to be Happy for ever Adam therefore was thus every way Fit and most Advantageously and by the Infinite Goodness of the Creator plac'd as the Common Head of Mankind as a Type of Christ The Application and Use of this first Proposition is 1. The Consideration of Humane Nature Enstated at first in its Common Parent as its Head and Mediator Furnish'd with the Life of Righteousness and Holiness in a State of Favor with God and in the Assurance of a Blessed Immortality and yet so wofully Fallen by our First Parent should exceedingly Humble and Abase us before God in a just Sense of our Fallen Condition as being the effect of our own disloyalty in Adam our Representative and in whom we may see our own Falseness and the great Faithfulness of God to us 2. It Teaches us to Adore the Grace of God in Jesus Christ so Blessed a Mediator who cannot fail us to fly to Him as our onely security both from the Ruine we are fallen into by Adam and also from our own False Righteousness that seems to remain to us and from the Treachery and Falseness of our own Hearts and Resolutions in Holiness All our Security is in Christ alone and in dependency on Him 3. We should therefore look most diligently to this that we are Found in the Second Adam the Head of our Recovery who so much excells the First Adam though he had not fallen how much more when he is Fallen and become the Head of Ruine and Apostacy For he onely who by being in the Son hath the Son He only hath Life but who hath not the Son hath not 1 John ● 12. John 3. 〈◊〉 Life but the Wrath of God abides upon Him I have under the foregoing Proposition given a Sum of the whole Context and laid the Foundation I shall now go on to give the Sum of every Proposition arising from it Propos 2. ADAM hath conveyed a Law of Righteousness to All his Posterity engrafted into their Hearts and It is so inseparable from Humane Nature that one cannot pass without the other but he hath not conveyed a Nature answerable and agreeable to that Law but sunk down from it into Sin which is the truest Account of Original Sin however It cannot be search'd in all the particulars in so short a summary but thus he hath conveyed Sin and Death to all his Posterity and thus the Rom. 5. 13 14. Apostle proves the Common Headship of Adam There cannot be Death without Sin there cannot be Sin without a Law there cannot be a Law without the giving that Law there was no universal Law till Moses There was universal Death of all Mankind even of Infants before Moses there must be therefore universal Sin and therefore also there must have been an universal Law given Such a Law being no way so Given till Moses but by that Law written in Mens Hearts Hereby it necessarily arises Adam must be a Head conveying an Vniversal Law But not conveying an universal Nature suitable to it as Righteous Holy and Good as Rom. 7. 12. that Law is He hath conveyed Sin and Death Universally 1. Adam was entrusted with a Nature perfectly agreeable to this Law but falling from it under the Justice of God He conveys this Law with the disagreeable Nature on which follows Sin and Condemnation He was in the best Circumstances any Man could be to have preserved the one with the other and as the Common Father of All the most obliged to look well to it and much stronger then if every single man had been to preserve it only for himself seeing the Care of an Universal Parent must needs be in Nature the highest Care and our daily Unfaithfulness to our selves in what is in our Power shews how little Reason there is to complain as if we would have done better each man for himself then Adam for us All. Herein how does Christ excell Adam as a Common Head or Mediator For He conveys a Law indeed but it is a Law of the Spirit of Life as to Justification and that carries with it an Efficacious Law to Sanctification as shall be shown Adam conveying a Law but not conveying a Fountain of Action agreeable hath convey'd a Law of Sin and Death because the Law condemns the Nature but Christ conveys nothing but Grace Righteousness and Life to All in Him Thus different a Head he is from Adam both ways who was a Figure and not a Figure of Christ who is to be that Head a Figure in conveying but not a Figure in conveying Sin and Death instead of Life and Righteousness as he was at first appointed 2. What Adam conveys he