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

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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