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3. The guilt of Adams sin being ours by Natural Derivation, cometh to all alike, entirely (according to the subjects capacity▪ and necessarily, without the consent of Parent or Child: Were Adam and all Parents unwilling to communicate it in generation, it would nevertheless be done: But Christ being not a Natural, but a contracting voluntary Root and Cause, doth communicate the fruits of his Righteousness only voluntarily by gift of Contract, at the time, in the •anner, and measure, and on the terms that he seeth meet.

Here it is observable, 1. That both Generation and Regeneration have much unsearchable: How Souls generate Souls, and how the Spirit of Christ communicateth Grace to Souls, will never here be clearly apprehended, john 3.8.

Here it is observable, 1. That both Generation and Regeneration have much unsearchable: How Souls generate Souls, and how the Spirit of Christ communicateth Grace to Souls, will never here be clearly apprehended, •ohn 3.8.

2. But it's certain that the Soul of the Parent is not the Soul of the Child, but some cause of it; and so that they are not one person.