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I answer, We derive from the first Adam, sin and death: but from the second Adam, Grace and Life. As we are the sons of men, our state is wretched, as made the sons of God, blessed. It is a peremptory speech, 1. Cor. 15. 50.¹ Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. It is a ⟨p. 5⟩reviving comfort in the 6. Chapter of the same Epistle: Such we were, ²but we are washed, but we are sanctified, but we are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, & by the spirit of our God. The conclusion or inference hereon is most happy.^a Now therefore there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. We may live in the flesh, but^b if after the flesh, we shall die. Si voluntati & voluptati carnis satissacere conemur: If our endeavours be wholly armed and aimed to content the Flesh: but if we be led by the spirit, cum dilectione, cum delectatione, with love, with delight, we are of the sons of men, made the^c sons of God.

I answere, We deriue from the first Adam, sinne and death: but from the second Adam, Grace and Life. As we are the sonnes of men, our state is wretched, as made the sonnes of God, blessed. It is a peremptory speech, 1. Cor. 15. 50.¹ Flesh and bloud cannot inherite the kingdome of God, neyther doth corruption inherite incorruption. It is a ⟨p. 5⟩reuiuing comfort in the 6. Chapter of the same Epistle: Such wee were,