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A96978	Testimony for the son of man and against the son of perdition wherein is set forth the faith and obedience of Gods elect, testified by the mouth of the Lord, angels & men. With a true discovery of a bundle of equivocations, confusions, and hyprocisies, in those who call themselves preachers of, and to the light within all men; who yet are so far in darkness themselves, that they acknowledge not the scriptures and ordinances of Jesus Christ, so as to be directed by the one, to the obedience of the other. By Joseph Wright, a servant of Jesus Christ.	Wright, Joseph, 1623-1703.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3706; ESTC R229892	108,801	255

little blessed are all they that put their trust in him Psal 2. 10 11 12. O that all men would now consider and be wise in the Day wherein the Grace of God is tendered unto them in the Gospel of Jesus Christ that they may know what to do when God riseth up and what to answer when he visiteth Job 31. 14. and take heed all ye that make Profession of Jesus Christ Watch and pray alwayes that ye may be counted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man Luke 21. 36. for then shall be that coming of Christ that end of the World and that eternal judgement both of the living and of the dead which never yet hath been accomplished notwithstanding the vain confidence of those that call themselves Preachers of and to the Light within c. That suppose that these things are past with them whose Doctrine having been shewed to be disagreeable to the Doctrine of the Scriptures concerning the Person of Christ and the Father Son and Spirit and the Light and the Ordinances of Christ and the Resurrection of the dead the coming of Christ and the end of the world It is time now to conclude this Chapter CHAP. III. That the so called Preachers of and to the Light within c. Preach not to the Creature man but to a supposed Seed or uncreated substance in Man which they call Christ and the eternal witness That the Creature man is the Subject to whom Salvation is to be tendred being in a lost condition by sin and for whose deliverance Christ dyed That the Spirits in Prison are the Spirits of those men and women which were disobedient in the dayes of Noah That Christ is a distinct person from all other persons of his Divine and Humane Natures That those comforts which are admininistred to the Disciples of Christ he accepts it as done to himself how believers are said to partake of the Divine Nature of Christ and that not a power onely in man but the whole man Spirit Soul and Body shall enjoy eternal happinesse as the Humane Nature of Christ now doth That the Creature man together with the Devils are the subjects of the Wrath of God And that the perfection spoken of in the Scriptures is that which the Creature man shall enjoy Of the deceits of those that call upon all men to look into the Light within while they Communicate their Doctrine and unclean spirit to them of their resemblance to birds in their Bel-candle and net the reason why they cry down Gospel Ordinances and how they Communicate that unclean spirito why they deny Baptism in Water and plead for Spirit Baptism why they require waiting in silence of their touching or taking by the hand and the effect thereof of their visits and of their so much preaching and Printing that the Light within doth not effect those things which they ascribe to it but the said things are effected by an unclean Spirit of their silent Meetings that several of their followers have confessed themselves possessed with the Devil and of the sad pranks he played in one that thought himself perfect Sect. 1 THat those that call themselves Preachers of and to the Light within all men Preach not to the Creature man but a supposed seed or uncreated substance in man is clearly discovered by their writings wherein they have these words viz. A Salutation to the Seed of God and by these and such like expressions viz. I speak to the Light in your Conscience which shall eternally witnesse c. Now if the Light in the Conscience shall eternally witnesse then that Light must needs be understood to be eternal for nothing can be an eternal witness but an eternal thing but God onely is eternal that is without beginning and without end man is a Creature that hath a beginning though he shall have no end but shall for ever be in tribulation or in rest as a reward of disobedience or as the effect of the Grace of God and his Gift thereby to him that believeth and obeyeth the Gospel Therefore no part of man is God or of the uncreated or eternal substance and they in preaching to an eternal thing preaches not to man that had a beginning and hath lost his first Righteousness but which I fear to speak even to God for when I have at their publick Meetings thus questioned the speaker What is it which thou speakest and Preachest too the Teacher hath cryed out in great hast calling all the persons that heard him speak to witnesse for him that he spake to the Light in their Conscience to the Seed of God c. Whereupon I have asked him What is that Light in the Conscience What is that Seed of God in its self I have then been answered that it is Christ as if Christ were not a person distinct from all other persons but onely a certain Spirit or Power in all persons and that his Death and Resurrection is accomplished onely in a Mystical not in a proper sence and having a great affection to vindicate this Mystical Allegation and to turn the minds of their Hearers from the plain Truth of the Gospel they Alledge a Scripture or two and infer from them that which never was intended by the Spirit of God in them from that Scripture 1 Pet. 3. 18 19. Where the Apostle saith Christ hath once suffered for sins c. being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the Spirit by which he went and Preached to the Spirits in Prison they do infer that the spirits here spoken of is Christ that is imprisoned in man kept under and held down in the Creature and Christ as they say being quickened in them they go and Preach to the Spirits which is Christ imprisoned in others which they endeavour to help raise up set at liberty and for further proof of this imagination they alledge Mat. 25. 36. Where Christ saith I was sick and in Prison and ye visited me c. Sect. 2 But in this their Doctrine and Practice of Preaching to the Seed of God to the uncreated or eternal witnes or substance which they call Christ imprisoned and not to the creature man it is evident that it is fearful blasphemy for it supposeth that that which they call Christ hath done iniquity else why do they say repent repent with many exhortations to depart from sin when they speak to that within which in their sence is Christ so that they Reprove Christ Exhort Christ Counsel Christ yea they say they speak to that of God in the Conscience which shall eternally witnesse c. so that they teach God Reprove God Counsel God Oh horrible Blasphemy who will not fear to utter it how contrary is this to the Doctrine of the Blessed Apostle Paul Romans 11. 34. WHO saith he hath instructed the Lord or WHO hath BEEN HIS COUNSELLOR Or who hath given to him and

supposed eternal substance in every man as if not a person distinct from all other persons but a spirit or power in all persons were the Christ and as if the death of Christ were not accomplished in his own Body really but in the bodies of all men onely mystioally But this is the Testimony of Truth Christ Jesus the Lord is a distinct Person from all persons beside himself and such a person as there is none like him for He is the Son of God according to the Spirit of Holinesse Rom. 1. 4. and also the Son of David according to the Flesh so that he is truly and properly the Son of God before all Worlds and also in the fulnesse of time being made of a Woman Gal. 4. 4. It was onely that Person that is the Son of Mary the Virgin never man was Son of a Virgin but He it is He onely that was conceived in his Mothers Womb by the Operation of the Holy Spirit not one man in the whole World was ever so conceived besides himself so that He and He onely is perfect God and perfect man in Nature and Substance no man else in the whole Creation is so it is He that hath two distinct Natures in one entire person no Person else hath the like in him and in him onely dwelleth all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily Col. 2. 9. in no man besides him dwelleth the Godhead in any measure bodily Now although all men in respect of their Substance and Christ in respect of one of his Natures or Substances that is to say His Flesh and Blood are of one Substance Heb. 2. 14. yet it doth not at all follow from hence that all men are Christ for they are all distinct persons from him they are many persons He is one Person Mat. 16. 13 14 15 16. Onenesse in nature doth not make onenesse in person a man and his wife are one in Nature yet they are two distinct persons and although all men in respect of their substance of Spirit Soul and Body and Christ in respect of his Humane Nature are one yet in respect of his Godhead they are not one for He onely is the Son of God according to the Spirit of Holinesse and was so from all eternity Rev. 1. 8. Phil. 2. 6. Heb. 9. 14. the spirit of man though it be the most excellent part of man yet it is but a Created Substance the Spirit of Holinesse in Christ is an uncreated Substance a being without beginning and without end So that although Christ was in all things made like unto his Brethren sin excepted yet as he is the Son of God according to the Spirit of Holinesse he is not like his Brethren that have beginning of dayes and end of life but like his Father of the same uncreated Substance and of the same eternity even without beginning and without end and as Christ did in our Nature suffer yet not in ours but in his own Person so he is pleased to account that which is done to his Disciples as done to himself because it is done to one of his Natures though not to his person but to the Persons of his Disciples who are not therefore Christ for the Disciples are not that person that is the Christ neither have they as they are persons those two Natures that Christ hath neither are they that one Person that Christ is neither are they in a mystical sence called Christ but as being in Covenant and in Communion with that one Person which is the Christ who is the Son of God according to the Spirit of Holiness and the Son of David also according to the flesh which no man besides him is from all which the sence of the Scripture Mat. 25. 36. is clear viz. That man having one of the Natures of Christ viz. Flesh and Blood and being in Covenant with him by becoming his Disciples that good or that evil which is done unto them Christ declares it as done unto himself not that it was done to his Person as the Question of the Righteous vers 37. and the Answer of the King vers 40. do evidently manifest whereby the folly of those that wrest this Scripture to prove that Christ Preacheth to the Spirits when they are in Prison or that those Spirits are Christ that the Christ is onely a Power or Spirit in every man and not a distinct Person from all men beside himself or that Christ hath onely one Nature and not two dictinct Natures in one Person or that the Humane Nature which dyed was not Christ according to the Flesh which also was quickened again by Christ according to the Spirit of Holinesse Rom. 1. 4. or that these two Natures Spirit of Holinesse and Flesh Son of God and Son of Man in one Person is not the true Christ distinct from all other Persons of men though they be the Disciples of Christ I say the folly and blasphemy of those that wrest this Scripture to defend those vain conceits or to gain-say those Glorious Truths which are discovered laid open and made manifest for Christ in his affirmations I was an hungred and ye fed me Naked and ye cloathed me Sick and ye visited me in Prison and ye came unto me and the like did not affirm these things to be administred to the eternal Substance but to the whole created man Spirit Soul and Body especially to the sensitive Soul which standeth in need of Food Mat. 6. 25. and to the Body which being naked hath need of cloathing as also the Spirit of man which being in trouble hath need of comfort But it cannot be said that the Power Spirit or eternal Substance in man distinct from the Spirit Soul and Body of man is hungry thirsty a stranger naked sick or in prison neither did Christ affirm these comforts to be administred to his own Person consisting of these Divine and Humane Natures which as the Spirit of Holinesse was ever free from such infirmities so also the Humane Nature of his Person hath been free from hunger cold and nakednesse ever since his Resurrection from the dead so that the true meaning of our Saviour is this viz. That forasmuch as the Humane Nature of Christ is one in substance with the Nature of man-kind and because the Disciples of Christ are in Covenant with Christ their Head and Lord therefore that which is done to them in Feeding Cloathing Harbouring c. the Lord takes it as done unto himself because it is done to one of his Natures though not to his Person and because it is done to the Persons of his Disciples which are in Covenant with him as the 40. verse makes it evident And the King shall answer and say unto them Verily I say unto you inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my Brethren ye have done it unto me Thus this Scripture also is vindicated and those false inferences which false teachers have endeavoured to draw from

those that are brought into such an estate and condition by Christ that Christ is formed in them though they be not of the same substance with Christ in respect of his uncreated but onely in respect of his created substance that those objections propounded and such like are fully answered Sect. 8 But if it be objected That believers have also those pretious Promises given them whereby they may be Partakers of the Divine Nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. To this it is answered that although it be so yet the manner of Believers partaking of the Divine Nature is different from that manner of unity of the Divine and Humane Natures in the Person of Christ in several respects First In the Humane Nature of Christ dwells the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily Col. 2. 9. But in Believers the Godhead doth not dwell bodily Secondly The Body of Christ who was born of Mary was not Conceived that is formed or fashioned in his Mothers Womb but by and of the Holy Spirit the second Person in the Trinity But the bodies of those that are Believers were not conceived in their Mothers Wombs by any such operation of the Holy Spirit God forbid we should once presume to think so For Thirdly The Virgin Mary conceived the Body of Christ of her Seed or Substance by the operation of the Holy Spirit the second Person in the Trinity without her knowing of man Luke 1. 34. 35. But the Bodies of those men and women that are Believers and Saints by calling were conceived of their Mothers not without their knowing of man and without any such operation of the Holy Spirit Fourthly The Humane Nature of Christs Person never subsisted of it self but alwayes was in Personal Vnity with the Godhead and subsisted by it so that in him the Godhead dwelt bodily but it is not so with others Persons though they are Believers and though their Substance be the same with the Humane Nature of Christ yet it doth not subsist as the Humane Nature of Christs Person doth for all Persons excepting Christ do subsist without the Personal Unity of the Godhead but the Humane Nature of Christs Person did never subsist without the Personal Unity of the Godhead Therefore Fifthly That we may understand how Believers do partake of the Divine Nature it is needful to consider what that Divine Nature is that Believers are said to partake of and after what manner they do partake of it The Divine Nature then of which participation is promised unto believers is their attaining unto an eminent resemblance of that blessed estate and condition wherein the Humane Nature of the Person of Christ now is since his Resurrection from the dead and ascention to his Father as the Apostle Paul teacheth Rom. 8. 29. For saith he Whom God did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the Image of his Son that he might be the first-born among many Brethren for as Believers have born the Image of the earthly so shall they also bear the Image of the Heavenly 1 Cor. 15. 49. That as the Humane Nature of Christ could not be held of death because it was in Personal Unity with the Divine Nature So those that are in Covenant with Christ shall not be held of the first neither shall they enter into the second death not because they are personally united unto the Divine Nature or Godhead as the Humane Nature of Christs Person is but because they as all mankind are of one substance with the Humane Nature of Christ Therefore all shall be brought out of the Grave and such as are also in Covenant with him whose Humane Nature is personally united unto the Godhead shall not enter into the second death for as the Godhead of Christ did quicken that Humane Nature which is in Personal Unity with it so will the same Godhead see Acts 10. 43. Acts 13. 38. Ephes 2. 5. Rev. 3. 14. c. through that Humane Nature quicken also the same Humane Nature in those that are not in Personal Unity with it for the Humane Nature of Christ is so filled with the Divine Nature that of his fulnesse all those that are in Covenant with him do receive and Grace for Grace John 1. 16. It is wonderful to consider what victory the Humane Nature of Christs Person hath obtained with what dignity he is invested and what gifts he hath to bestow upon all his Brethren now since his ascention to his Father He saith the Apostle hath led Captivity Captive Ephes 4. 8. hath abolished death and hath brought Life and Immortality to light through the Gospel 2 Tim. 1. 10. He is Crowned with Glory and Honour Heb. 2. 9. He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 19. 16. All Power in Heaven and Earth is given unto Him Mat. 28. 18. even that Jesus which was Crucified is now both Lord and Christ Acts 2. 36. He that descended into the lower parts of the Earth is the same also that ascended far above all Heavens that He might fill all things And He gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the Body of Christ till we all come in the Unity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ Ephes 4. 9 10 11 12 13. The Divine Nature filled the Humane Nature in the Person of Christ that He might pour out of his fulness to the same Humane Nature in the persons of others the Humane Nature of Christs Person did so perticipate of the Divine Nature that his Conception Birth Life Sufferings and Death was Pure and Holy and therefore of infinite worth in the sight of God the Father that so they whose Conception Birth and Life is polluted and unclean and whose death is the wages of their sins might be set free from sin and from death and entituled unto eternal Life for in the flesh of Christ sin was so condemned Rom. 8. 3. that neither unto the guilt of sin dominion of sin nor unto any punishment due for any sin done by him was he lyable it was to set free the persons of others from the Guilt Dominion and Punishment due to them for their sins that he underwent the punishment he that knew no sin being made a curse that so they which have sinned might inherit a blessing Gal. 3. 13. 14. which blessing or rather blessednesse Psalm 1. 1. all those that are in Covenant with Christ and in that Covenant are faithful unto death Rev. 2. 10. do receive of him who through his Divine Power doth give unto them a likeness of estate and condition unto his own now glorified Humane Nature that so they also truly may be said to partake of the Divine Nature See 2 Pet. 1. 2 3 4. Therefore Sixthly and Lastly Believers partaking of

it shall be recompenced unto him again for of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be Glory for ever Amen See Isay 30. 13 14. He that hath an ear let him hear and fear and do no more presumptuously For this their Doctrine supposeth that that which they call Christ is saved by their Preaching and Teaching from a fallen condition which when in their conceit they have raised they salute in their writings which they have Intituled A Salutation to the Seed of God which they suppose is in every man and this they say is Christ in a fallen slain or imprisoned condition till raised up by their endeavours so that Christ is not distinguished by them as a distinct person from all other men nor his death to be declared to be accomplished in his own person but in every man according to their delution every man hath Christ in him sometimes slain and sometimes raised his death is not once but often accomplished and he is slain for himself and raised for himself if raised at all Oh how contrary is this Doctrine to the Doctrine of the Scriptures which teach that Christ hath ONCE suffered for sins the just for the unjust being put to death in the flesh but quickend in the spirit 1 Pet. 3. 18. But now ONCE saith the Apostle in the end of the World hath he appeared to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself he was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin to Salvation Heb. 9. 26 28. Neither let them think to excuse the matter by alledging that the Name Christ is sometimes given the Church which is men and women united to him by Faith according to the Gospel for when it is so given it is to be taken mystically believers being understood to be the Body of Christ and Christ to be the head of that Body this mystical sence destroyes not the proper sence for Christ as a distinct person from all other persons is described by the Apostle Paul Rom. 1. 3 4. to be made of the Seed of David according to the flesh and declared to be the Son of God with Power according to the Spirit of Holinesse by the Resurrection from the dead in which flesh he suffered upon the Crosse being put to death and the third day rose again by the Power of the Spirit of Holinesse he was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification Rom. 4. 25. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the Tree that we being dead to sins should live to Righteousnesse by whose stripes ye were healed as the Apostle teacheth 1 Pet. 2. 24. Sect. 3 But if man considered as man yea as fallen sinful and wretched man as a Creature without Christ without God c. be not to be Preached unto and if Salvation by Faith in Christ be not tendred to the Creature distinct from the Creator then is there no tender of Salvation nor any thing to be saved for there is not one Scripture which speaketh of any thing else which Salvation is to be tendred unto but man for whom Christ dyed as it is written Heb. 2. 16. For verily he taketh not hold of Angels but of the Seed of Abraham he taketh hold according to the Greek that is he did not take into unity of person the Nature of Angels but he took into personal unity the Seed of Abraham that is the nature of man was taken into personality with his Divine nature that through death he might destroy him that had the Power of death that is the Devil and deliver them that through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage Heb. 2. 14 15. It was the Creature man that was in bondage by sin and in fear of death that hid himself and was afraid Gen. 3. 10. and had been as water spilt upon the ground if God had not devised means that his banished be not exciled from him 2 Sam. 14. 14. It was that sinning Creature man that should have been banished for ever had not God devised means to redeem the man Adam and his posterity For God so loved the World that he gave his onely begotten Son Jesus Christ that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life John 3. 16. Gods love was indeed to the lost but no part of the eternal and uncreated substance was lost but man was lost the Creature had been cut off for ever for that first sin of Adam by whom sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Rom. 5. 12. But God so loved that Creature Man as to give his only begotten Son for his redemption for God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved John 3. 16 17. which life and salvation is to be held forth to the Creature which hath sinned to the race of mankind for they have all sinned and come short of the Glory of God and these that have sinned are upon their repentance and believing the Gospel Justified freely by the Grace of God through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ for God justifieth the ungodly Rom. 3. 23 24. Rom. 4. 5. We have seen and do testifie saith the Apostle John That the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the World Not to be a Saviour of his eternal substance but to be a Saviour to the world 1 John 4. 14. I am the Living Bread saith Christ which came down from Heaven if any man eat of this Bread he shall live for ever and the Bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the Life of the World wch world had for ever perished for the iniquities thereof had not Christ Jesus given himself freely to death that he might bring them to God which were without God and without Christ being strangers from the Covenant of Promise having no hope and without God in the world Ephes 2. 12. So that as the same Apostle teacheth they which were sometimes alienated and enemies in their Minds or Spirits by wicked works Yet now hath he reconciled in the Body of his flesh through death to present them holy and unblameable and unreproveable in the sight of God if they continue in the Faith grounded and setled and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel preached unto all and whereof Paul was a Minister Col. 1. 22 23. For as he also saith There is one God and one Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransome for all to be testified in due time 1 Tim. 2. 5 6. The like is testified by the Angel of God as it is written by Luke in his Gospel And Lo the Angel of the Lord saith he came upon them and the Glory of

it refelled Sect. 6 But those that are perswaded that some part of their persons either Soul or Spirit is Christ the Light of the World the eternal and uncreated substance being lifted up with high conceit of themselves supposing that the Godhead dwells in them bodily and being unwilling to be divested of that imaginary deity and to be accounted meer Creatures it is likely that they will object whatsoever may be objected against that Doctrine which declares Jesus Christ to be a distinct Person from all other persons having such a manner of unity with God the Father that no person hath in the whole world beside himself and it 's more then probable that they will alledge these and such like sentences of Scripture viz. Christ in you the Hope of Glory Col. 1. 27. My little Children of whom I travel in birth again till Christ be formed in you Gal. 4. 19. That was the true Light which lighteth every man which cometh into the World and the Light shineth in darknesse c. John 1. 5. And the inference which they will make from these and such like Scriptures questionlesse will be to this purpose viz. That the eternal and uncreated substance or witness ●● in every man that cometh into the World in the same manner as it is in him that was born of the Virgin and is so manifested in those that call themselves Preachers and followers of the Light within c. But in answer to their Allegations and Objections of this kind the Scripture teacheth that all mankind are of the same substance with Christ according to one of his Natures but not according to the other according to the Created but not according to the Uncreated substance Forasmuch saith the Apostle As the children are partakers of Flesh and Blood he also himself likewise took part of the same Heb. 2. 14. The Flesh Soul and Spirit of all men and the Flesh Soul and Humane Spirit of Christ is of one Substance there is indeed a Personal and an Accidental difference but not a Substantial the Persons of men are many but the Person of Christ is one the condition wherein the World of men and women are is unclean by reason of sin but the condition wherein the Humane Nature of Christs Person is is Pure Holy by reason of his Righteousnesse he took part of the same Substance of Adam but no part of his Pollution we are unclean because we are Propogated in unclean Lust the just reward of sinful desire Gen. 3. 16. Psal 51. 5. but he is Pure and Holy because he was conceived of the Holy Spirit we are unclean because we have sinned in transgressing the Law of God but he is Pure and Holy because he hath kept it the Humane Nature of Christ was made in the same condition that Adam was before he sinned but we are become in the same condition that Adam was after he had sinned and as the Substance of Adams Flesh Soul and Spirit was the same after he had sinned as before but not the condition so the Substance of Christs Flesh Soul and Humane Spirit not of the Spirit of Holinesse is the same with Adams now since Adam sinned but the condition the same with Adams before he sinned for though the eternal word took hold of the Seed of Abraham or took into Personal Unity the Substance of Adam after Adam had sinned yet the Estate or Condition wherein that substance was made was as Pure and Holy as Just and Righteous as Adam was before he sinned for as Adam before he transgressed was a Son of God by Creation Luke 3. 38. So the Humane Nature of Christ is the Son of God by Creation God made or built the Body of Christ of the Seed of the Woman as he did the Body of Adam of the dust of the ground see Gen. 2. 7. Gal. 4. 4. Heb. 10. 5. Christs being the Son of David doth respect the substance of which his Body was made not the formation of that substance for in that respect he is also the Son of God Luke 1. 35. It is indeed a Glorious Personality that the Humane Nature of Christ hath because it doth not subsist of it self but in the Godhead but the substance of it is the same with all mankind who subsists not as he doth viz. by Personal Unity with the Godhead and as Adam before he had transgressed had Soveraignty over the Creatures and the Paradise of God for his Habitation wherein was the Tree of Life whereof he might have eaten before he transgressed and so have lived for ever in the enjoyment of God and of that image or likenesse of God wherein he was made had he kept that Law and eaten of that Tree of Life which was given him for that purpose see Gen. 3. 22. Rev. 22. 2 3. So the Humane Nature of Christs Person by keeping that Law which Adam transgressed hath right to all that Adam lost for he being made under the Law which he also fulfilled Gal. 4. 4. Mat. 5. 17 18. in him the Image of God is seen expresly Heb. 1. 3. and all things are put in subjection under his feet Heb. 2. 7 8. see Psal 8. And as the first Adam being tempted by his yeilding to the temptation was soon overcome of the Devil and led Captive at his will So Christ the second Adam by resisting the Devil when he was tempted by him forty dayes in the Wildernesse overcame Satan and put him to flight see Mat. 4. vers 1. to 12. And therefore as the demerit of the first Adams transgression was so great that all that are derived from him by Natural Generation are defiled by it so the demerit of the second Adams obedience is so great that all that ever come to be derived from him by Spiritual Regeneration are sanctified by it So that as it was a blessed estate and condition that the Person of the first Adam and all that were in him lost by sin so it is a blessed estate and condition that the Humane Nature of Christ the second Adam hath gained by his obedience for the same Nature in the Persons of all those that ever come to be in Covenant with him or to be regenerate or born again of Water and of the Holy Spirit and so to be grafted into him by Faith John 3. 5. 6. Romans 11. 19. 20. Sect. 7 For whosoever shall seriously consider and according to the Scriptures of truth determine of the state and condition wherein the first Adam was made and wherein he continued until he transgressed the Law of God shall find that it was a very happy and blessed estate and condition for he was made in the Image of God in Righteousnesse and true holinesse was he created see Eccles 7. 29. Gen. 1. 26. Ephes 4. 24. with dominion over the Creatures the Fish of the Sea the Foul of the Air and over everly living thing that moveth upon the earth was he invested Gen. 1. 28 29.