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ty descending from them by ordinary generation. h

g. Gen. i. 27, 28. Gen. ii. 16, 17. Acts xvik 26. Rom. v. 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. ICor. xv. 21,22,45,49 hPsal. li. 5. Gen. v. 3. Job xiv. and xv. 14.

IV.

From this original corruption whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled and made opposite to all good, i and wholly inclined to all evil, k do proceed all actual transgressions. l.

i Rom v. 6, and viii. 7, and vii. 18. Col. i. 21. k Gen. vi. 5. and viii. 21. Rom. iii. 10, 11, 12. / Jam. i. 14, 15. Eph. ii. 2, 3. Mat. xv 19.

V.

This corruption of nature during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; m and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin. n

m I John i. 8 10. Rom vii. 14, 17, Jam. iii. 2. Pro. xx. 9. Eccl. vii, 20. vii. 5, 7, 8, 25. Gal. v. 17.

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18, 23.

n Rom.

Every sin both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, o doth in its own nature bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is

bound over to the wrath of God, q and curse of the law, r and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, # temporal u and e ter nal. 20

o' I John, iii. 4. 19. q Eph ii. 3.

↑ Rom. xx. 15. and ii. 9,

r Gal. ii. 10. • Róm. . 3.

Eph. i. 18. u Rom, viii. 2. Lam. iii. 39. Mal, xxv. 41. II 1 hes. i. 9.

CHAP. VII.

Of God's Covenant with Man.

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ure is so great, that although re-sonable creatures do owe obedience to him as their Creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of life, but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant a

a Isa. xl. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. Job ix. 32, 33. Ps. cxiii. 56, and c. 2, 3. Job xxii. 2, 3, and XXXV. 7, 8. Luke xvii. 10, Acts xvii. 24, 25..

II.

The first covenant made with man, was a

covenant of works, 6 wherein life was promised

to Adam, and in him to his posterity, cupon condition of perfect and personal obedience. d

b Gal. iii. 12. c Rom. x. 5, and v. 12 to 20. d Gen. ii. 17. Gal. 3. 10.

III.

Man by his fall having made himself unca pable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a second, e commonly called the covenant of grace; wherein he freely of fereth: unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them Faith in him that they may be saved, f and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto life, his holy Spirit to make them willing and able to believe.g

e Gal. iii. 21. Rom. iii. 20, 21. Gen iii. 5.. Isa. xlii. 6. f Mark xvi. 15, 16. John ii. 16.. Rom. x. 6, 10. Gal. iii. 11. g Ezek. xxxvi.. 26, 27. John vi. 44, 45.

IV.

This covenant of grace is frequently set forth in scripture by the name of a testament, in reference to the death of Jesus Christ the testator, and to the everlasting inheritance, with all things belonging to it, therein bequeathed. h Heb. vii. 22. and ix. 15, 16, 17. Luke xxii. 20. I Cor. xi. 25.

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V.

Although this covenant hath been differently

and variously administered in respect of Ordinances and institutions in the time of the law, and since the coming of Christ in the flesh, i yet for the substance and efficacy of it, to all its spiritual and saving ends it is one and the samek upon the account of which various dispensa tions it is called the old and new testament. /

i II Cor. iii. 6. 7, 8, 9. Heb. xii. 8 to 24. Col. i. 11. 12. I Cor. v. 7. 8, and x. 25. k Gal. ii. 3. Eph. v. 5. Jet.xxx.. 33. 34. Rom. iii. 21, 22, 30, and i. 16. 11 Cor. iii. 6, 14.

CHAP. VIII.

Of Christ the Mediator.

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choose and ordain the Lord Jesus his only begotten son, according to a covenant made between them both, to be the Mediator between God and man,; a the prophet. b priest, c and king, d the head and saviour of his church, the heir of all things, fand judge of the world:g unto whom he did from all eternity give a people to be his seed, h and to be by him in time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified and glori fied. i

e isa. xlii. 1. I Pet. i. 19, 20. John iii. 10

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Eph. v. 23. f Heb.

1 Tim. ii. 5. b Acts iii. 22. c Heb. v. 5, 6. d Psal. ii. 6. Luke i. 33. i. 2. g Acts xvii. 31. xxii. 30. Isa. liii. 10. 45. I Cor. i. 30.

h John xvii. 6. Psal. I l'im. i. 6. Isa. lv.

II

The son of God the second person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God of one substance and equal with the father, did, when the fulness of time was come, take upon him man's nature, k with all the essential properties and common infirmities thereof, yet without sin, / being conceived by the power of the holy Ghost in the womb of the virgin Mary, of her substance; m so that two whole perfect and distinct natures, the Godhead and the manhood, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition or confusion; n which person is very God and very man yet one Christ, the only Mediator between God and man. o

k John i. 14, 17, and v. 20. Phil. ii. 6. Gal. iv. 4. / Heb. ii. 14, 16, 17, and iv. 15. m Luke i. 27, 31, 35. Gal. iv. 4. n Luke i. 35. Rom. ix. 5. Col. ii. 9. I Pet. iii. 18. I Tim. iii. 16. Rom. i. 31. I Tim. ii. 5.

III.

The Lord Jesus Christ in his human nature thus united to the divine in the person of the 6on was sanctified and anointed with the holy

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