The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…

II. The Doctrine then, which I deny as subverting the Christian Religion is especially these three errors following.

II. The Doctrine then, which I deny as subverting the Christian Religion is especially these three errours following.

I. That the true meaning of Adams Law or Covenant was to bind him or his surety disjunctively; viz. Thou shalt obey thy self or another (Christ) for thee, or else thou shalt die, or Christ for thee.] 1. Gods Word saith no such thing. 2. Then Christ had been an Antecedent Sponsor. 3. Yea and a party equally bound. 4. Then a Saviour and Grace had been by that Law: which is false. 5. Then Adam had been no Sinner; for it was but He or Christ and not He and Christ that were bound to keep the Law, by this Doctrine. 6. Then no Death had been due to Adam. 7. Then that Law was not broken at all: for it bound but disjunctively. 8. Then the Law condemneth no man. 9. Then our Death and the Curse of the Earth were injuries, for we kept the Law by Christ. 10. Then the Law of Innocency is it by which we are justified (which is false.) 11. Then there is no place for pardon. 12. Nor for a new Law to give us pardon upon terms or new Conditions: This is to subvert the Gospel.

Yet this is commonly said by the adversaries, that Adam after his fall was justified by that same Law, as saying, Do this and Live, because he kept it by Christ, or Christ in his Name and stead, so that it justifieth Adam: (which Mr. Wotton de Reco••. hath at large confuted.) If they say that the same Law or Covenant commanded Adam to obey perfectly and his surety also in his stead conjunctly, and condemned both Adam for Sin and his Surety for the same, then both must suffer as both must obey, and each beareth his own part. It is a fundamental fiction leading on many other