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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 ⟨p. 82⟩errors, to say that the Law of Innocency as it commanded Adam Obedience, or as it threatened Death to him was fulfilled by Christ for him▪ That Law commanded Adam only Personal perfect perpetual Obedience: It mentioned or meant no ••carius obed••••ae aut poenae: Dumb altus solvit, aliud solvitur. Another's obeying or suffering was no fulfilling of the Law as it commanded Adam: The Law commandeth each subject distinctly and personally: Christ fulfilled all the Law as it obliged himself, and tha• f•r Adams Redemption who had broken it: But the same Law a• it ob••••d Adam was broken by Adam, and not kept by him or any for him: It is not that Law that gave man a Saviour, but the Mercy of the Offended Lawgiver. To say the Hoc fac, & vives, in that Law giveth us right to Life, and justifieth us as perfect obeyers, and so no Sinners, is to deny 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 justifie•h 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