1. We must be hence convinced, that we are not now in a state of innocency, nor to be saved as innocents, or on the terms of the Law of our Creation: But Salvation is now by a Redeemer: and therefore consisteth in our recovery and restoration. The objects of it are only lapsed sinful miserable men. Name the Creature if you can since Adam, that stood before God here in the flesh, in a state of personal perfect innocency, except the immaculate Lamb of God. If God as Creator should now save any, without respect to a Redemption, it must be on the terms of the Law of Creation, upon which it is certain that no man hath or shall be saved; that is, upon perfect personal persevering obedience. You cannot exempt Infants themselves from sin and misery, without exempting them from Christ the Redeemer, and the remedy, Rom. 3. 10, 19, 20, 22, 23. [There is none Righteous (in himself without a Redeemer) no not one—They are all gone out of the way—That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. (And if all the world be guilty, none are innocent:) therefore by the deeds of the Law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ] Isa. 53. 6. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.] Rom. 5. 15. [Through the offence of one, many are dead] 16. And the judgement was by One to condemnation] 17. By the offence of one death reigned by one.] 18. By the offence of one, judgement came on all men to ⟨p. 87⟩condemnation.] 19. By one mans disobedience many were made sinners] Psal. 51. 4. [We were shapen in iniquity, and in sin did our mothers conceive us] Eph. 2. 1, 3. We were by nature the Children of wrath, and dead in trespasses and sin] 1 Cor. 15. 22. [In Adam all die] 2 Cor. 5. 14 [We thus judge, that if one dyed for all, then were all dead] Eph 5. 23. Christ is the Saviour of the Body] & v. 25, 26, 27. [Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water, by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious Church—] If Infants have no sin and misery, then they are none of the Body, the Church, which Christ loved and gave himself for that he might cleanse it.
1. We must be hence convinced, that we are not now in a state of innocency, nor to be saved as innocents, or on the terms of the Law of our Creation: Bue Salvation is now by a Redeemer: and therefore consisteth in our recovery and restauration. The objects of it are only lapsed sinful miserable men. Name the Creature if you can since Adam, that stood before God here in the flesh, in a state of personal perfect innocency, except the immaculate Lamb of God. If God as Creator should now save any, without respect to a Redemption, it must be on the terms of the Law of Creation, upon which it is certain that no man hath or shall be saved; that is, upon perfect personal persevering obedience. You cannot exempt Infants themselves from sin and misery, without exempting them from Christ the Redeemer, and the remedy, Rom. 3. 10, 19, 20, 22, 23. [There is none Righteous (in himself without a Redeemer) no not one—They are all gone out of the way—That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. (And if all the world be guilty, none are innocent:) therefore by the deeds of the Law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ] Isa. 53. 6. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.] Rom. 5. 15. [Through the offence of one, many are dead] 16. And the judgement was by One to condemnation] 17. By the offence of one death reigned by one.] 18. By the offence of one, judgement came on all men to ⟨p. 87⟩condemnation.] 19. By one mans disobedience many were made sinners] Psal. 51. 4. [We were shapen in iniquity, and in sin did our mothers conceive us] Eph. 2. 1, 3. We were by nature the Children of wrath, and dead in trespasses and sin] 1 Cor. 15. 22. [In Adam all die] 2 Cor. 5. 14 [We thus judge, that if one dyed for all, then were all dead] Eph 5. 23. Christ is the Saviour of the Body] & v. 25, 26, 27. [Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water, by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious Church—] If Infants have no sin and misery, then they are none of the Body, the Church, which Christ loved and gave himself for that he might cleanse it.
