When thou doest meditate on the promises of the Gospel, diligently consider §1these benefits, which thou enjoyest by Christ. Through Adam, thou art §2condemned to hell; by Christ thou art delivered from it. Through Adam, thou §3hast transgressed the whole law; in Christ thou hast fulfilled it. Through Adam, thou art before God a vile, and a loathsome sinner: through Christ thou §4doest appear glorious in his eyes. By Adam every little cross is the punishment of thy sin, and a token of Gods wrath: by Christ, the greatest crosses §5are easy, profitable, and tokens of Gods mercy. By Adam, thou diddest leese §6all things: in Christ all things are restored to thee again. By Adam thou art §7dead; by Christ thou art quickened, and made alive again. By Adam thou art a slave of the devil, and the child of wrath: but by Christ, thou art the child of §8God. In Adam, thou art worse then a toad, and more detestable before God: but by Christ, thou art above the Angels. For thou art joined unto him, and §9made bone of his bone, mystically. Through Adam, sin and Satan have ruled in thee, and led thee captive: by Christ, the spirit of god dwelleth in thee ⟨p. 665⟩plenteously. By Adam, came death to thee, and it is an entrance to hell: by §10Christ, though death remain, yet it is only a passage unto life. Lastly, in Adam,§11 thou art poor, and blind, and miserable: in Christ thou art rich and glorious, thou art a king of heaven an earth, fellow heir with him, and shalt as sure be partaker of it, as he is even now. Adam, when he must needs taste of the fruit, which God had forbidden him, he hath made us all to rue it, even till this day: but here thou seest the fruits that grow, not in the earthly paradise, but on the tree of life,1 which is within the heavenly Jerusalem. Fear no danger, be bold in Christ to eat of the fruit, as God hath commanded thee: it will quicken thee, and revive thee being dead: thou canst not do Satan a worse displeasure, then to feed on the godly fruit of this tree, and to smell on the sweet leaves, which it beareth continually, that give such a refreshing savour.
When thou doest meditate on the promises of the Gospel, diligently consider §1these benefits, which thou enioyest by Christ. Through Adam, thou art §2condemned to hel; by Christ thou art deliuered from it. Through Adam, thou §3hast transgressed the whole law; in Christ thou hast fulfilled it. Through Adam, thou art before God a vile, and a lothsome sinner: through Christ thou §4doest appeare glorious in his eyes. By Adam euery little crosse is the punishment of thy sinne, and a token of Gods wrath: by Christ, the greatest crosses §5are easie, profitable, and tokens of Gods mercie. By Adam, thou diddest leese §6all things: in Christ all things are restored to thee againe. By Adam thou art §7dead; by Christ thou art quickned, and made aliue again. By Adam thou art a slaue of the deuill, and the child of wrath: but by Christ, thou art the child of §8God. In Adam, thou art worse then a toad, and more detestable before God: but by Christ, thou art aboue the Angels. For thou art ioyned vnto him, and §9made bone of his bone, mystically. Through Adam, sinne and Sathan haue ruled in thee, and led thee captiue: by Christ, the spirit of god dwelleth in thee ⟨p. 665⟩plenteouslie. By Adam, came death to thee, and it is an entrance to hell: by §10Christ, though death remaine, yet it is only a passage vnto life. Lastly, in Adā,§11 thou art poore, and blind, and miserable: in Christ thou art rich and glorious, thou art a king of heauen an earth, fellow heire with him, and shalt as sure bee partaker of it, as he is euen now. Adam, when hee must needs tast of the fruit, which God had forbidden him, he hath made vs all to rue it, euen til this daie: but here thou seest the fruits that grow, not in the earthly paradise, but on the tree of life,1 which is within the heauenly Ierusalem. Feare no danger, be bolde in Christ to eate of the fruite, as God hath commaunded thee: it will quicken thee, and reuiue thee beeing dead: thou canst not doe Satan a worse displeasure, then to feede on the godly fruite of this tree, and to smell on the sweete leaues, which it beareth continually, that giue such a refreshing sauour.
- 1Apoc. 22.2.
