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And that the meaning of it was, Thou or Christ personating thee, shall perfectly Obey; or Thou or He shall Die the threatened death for Sin. VII. Others say, that this Personation began at the making of the Promise, Gen. 3. of the Se•d of the Woman, &c. And so, that Christ personated none under the first Covenant. VIII. Others say, that it began at Christs Incarnation, when he took the Nature of Man, and therewith all our Persons. IX. Others say, that it began on his Cross, or at least, at his Humiliation, and that he only suffered in our persons. X. Others say, that it begins at our Believing and our Union with Christ by Faith; and then he by Union personateth us. XI. They deny Gods Covenant or Law of Innocency, that required our Personal Obedience, as the condition of Life. XII. They forge a Law that God never made, that saith, Thou, or thy Surety, shall Obey Perfectly, or Dye. XIII. They falsely say, that God justifieth none that are not really or imputatively perfectly Innocent, Obedient, and such as never Sinned, but kept all that Law. XIV. They confound Gods Covenant with Christ as Mediator, imposing on him his Mediatorial part, and the Covenant of the Father and Son, with fallen Man, imposing on them the terms of Recovery and Life. XV. They hold that the first Law (and some of them also Moses's Law) is done away as to ⟨p. 9⟩all the Elect, but is still in force to all the Reprobates, and was in force to Christ: But whether it bound him to Obedience as our Representative antecedently to mans fall, or only consequently, they are in their confusion at a loss. And they hold that its curse and penalty sentenced after the fall by God, fell on all the Reprobate and on Christ, but none of it on any of the Elect, as having been suffered by Christ fully for them. As I have said, The promissory part of that Law ceased, and so did the condition of the promise, by mans sin making it impossible; but the threat did transire in sententiam: And if Christ was antecedently in the bond of Obedience for us, he was bound not to Eat of the forbidden Tree, and bound to dress the Garden, and bound to take Eve for his Wife, &c. which are all false. If he were bound by it as our representative after the fall, it bound him when it ceased, and bound not us, which is false:

And that the meaning of it was, Thou or Christ personating thee, shall perfectly Obey; or Thou or He shall Die the threatned death for Sin. VII. Others say, that this Personation began at the making of the Promise,