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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.
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Beverley, Thomas.
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Psal 51. 5. Ephes 2. 〈◊〉 c. 4. 22. conveys by Natural Generation and so especially by the Body as all evidence of Scripture assure us too many to need pointing to Hence Children of Wrath by Nature by Conception in Sin the Natural States call'd the Old Man a Body and Members of Sin The Soul coming with a Law of Righteousness engraven upon it immediately by Gods Creation into such a Body and sinking into its Corruption as descending from Adam and not keeping up to its Law of Creation sinks into Sin and Death But Christs Regeneration by his Spirit dwells as a higher 1 Cor. 6. 19. Rom. 8. 10 11. Spirit in the Regenerated Spirit and from thence making a Temple of the Body gives present Life to that Spirit by Righteousness when ever it separates from the Body and a Resurrection to the Body after Death 3. The Law of conveyance of Sin and Death is unrepealable upon All that is of Apostate Adam The Spirit or highest Soul of all the Children of Adam cemented with the Body is till recover'd by Christ under Condemnation notwithstanding It was given by Creation from God It cannot be renewed perfectly so as to be Life till separated from the Body by the Death of the Body The Body till it be a Body of the Resurrection is under Death and All this by vertue of that Decree upon Adam the Head But in Christ the head of recovery All is in its own order recovered into the Reign of Life the Spirit beginningly now perfectly at Death becomes Life The Body as the Temple of the Holy Ghost dwelling in the Soul shall be certainly rais'd by the Spirit of Christ dwelling in the Soul and by it in the Body also Vse All which teaches us to look to this that we be found in the Second Adam out of whom there is in from the First Adam as a Common Head nothing but Sin Death and Condemnation Proposition 3. Adam by his Fall and Observe the whole Context from verse to verse Conveyance of a Law of Holiness and of a Nature not agreeable to that Law of Holiness hath been a Head Common Person or Mediator of abundance of Sin Disobedience Offence Transgression Condemnation Death and the Reign of Death to the Posterity of Mankind The Law of Righteousness published in a fairer fuller clearer Edition in Scripture then as it is in the Heart of Man since the Fall hath made the Offence and the Death upon it much more to abound and Reign by the clearer Knowledge and more manifest Discoveries of them 1. Adam notwithstanding his Fall ceased not to be the prolifick and fruitful Head of millions of Mankind that have been and are yet to be 2. To All these He conveys the Nature of Men in all its vigour of Thoughts Words and Actions according to the variety of Degrees of Action whereunto the several Tempers Educations Stations and Ages of Men give them Opportunity 3. He hath no less conveyed that Law of Righteousness to be the Rule of the numberless Persons of Mankind and their far more numerous Actions of which the Fiery Law of God in Scripture now gives the clearest Beams 4. Hereupon by Reason of the unanswerableness of their Natures and Powers of Action and so of their Actions themselves to this Law a kind of Infinity of Actual Sin hath flown in upon the World much more discovered and aggravated by that Fiery Law 5. From thence Death in all its various shapes in this present World and the unsheathing Rev. 20. 14 15. of Death in the Second and Eternal Death of which the present Death is but the sheath or Scabbard hath had and must have a wonderful and triumphant Reign on the World of which all the Threats in the Word of God are a notorious Evidence 6. Besides the Evidence of the Word of God all the Experience all the Laws all the Writings all the common and ordinary Discourse in the World are the most known and familiar Assurances of the Abundance of Sin and Death 7. The close Attendance of Reason and its Enquiries will necessarily lead us to the First man as the original of both but the unquestionable Demonstration of it is this Word of God which best knows how Mankind began which hath given the most convictive Accounts of Sin and Death and which our own Sentiments of Mind most conspire with and so is most to be believ'd in the Original of them 8. In all this so abundant Communication of Sin and Death of which Adam by the accident of his own Sin is become a Head He is by that accident also yet the Figure of him who is to be the Second Adam in regard of the Exuberancies of Communication though not in regard of the Things Communicated as contrary and opposite one to another as Sin and Death are contrary to Righteousness and Life But to All that are in Christ Observe the much more along the Context Christ is a Mediator as much excelling Adam in the Power and Triumph of Communication of Righteousness Life and the Reign of it as the Antitype excells the Type as was before said and that not only in the Excellency of the Things Communicated but in the Richness and Plenty of the Communication Vse How Necessary is it we should All behold our selves in the First Adam in whom we certainly are by Natural Generation and that thereupon we should be filled with the Shame Horror Sorrow and Humiliation flowing from such a lost Nature and our innumerable Actual Transgressions upon it And that thereupon we should hasten into the Second Adam by Faith and Regeneration who is the Head of Life and Recovery Proposition 4. Jesus Christ is brought in One Man One Jesus Christ is oppos'd to One Man Adam throughout the Context by God the Second Last perfect Adam the most Excellent One Man the Common Head and Mediator of Humane Nature the Antitype to the Type the First Adam The First man Adam was before his Fall a Person of Great Value of Great Sufficiency when He was appointed a Mediator by God But by his own Sin He sunk and Fell and is become to all his Posterity a Head of Ruine Christ therefore comes as a Person of infinitely Greater value into the Humane Nature and into Adams Station to Raise Recover and Boy it up He came into the Nature so as to embrace the whole Nature in Himself without a Humane Person and so was more perfectly a Man then Adam not a Great Man but The Man 1 Tim. 2. 5. Christ Jesus As the Son of God He was Creator and Lord of the Nature and so had Right to Recover it as his own As the Phil. 2. v. 6. 8. Son of Man He bore the abstracted Humane Nature not limited to a Humane but united to the Divine Person and so was incomparably beyond Adam fit to be the Common Head because he had all the Nature so abstracted not bounded as in
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