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Fourthly: As he did merit Eternal Life and Salvation for his Seed, opening the Gates of Paradise again for them; So he did by his Death, recover the Image of God unto all his Seed: For as the First Adam by his Sin, and Disobedience, did then lose the Image of God, which loss he saw, as an immediate Fruit, and Effect of his Sin; so the Second Adam, Christ, did by his Death, and Obedience, merit the repair, and recovery of the Image of God,¹ for his Seed; which Purchase he did then obtain presently, and ⟨p. 114⟩did see the right thereunto, immediately settled upon his Seed, and Children, whom he died for; for saith the Apostle, Heb. 9.12. But by his own blood, be entered in once, into the holy place, having obtained Eternal Redemption for us. So that before he entered the holy place, he had obtained our Redemption: look therefore what that is, which we in Scripture, are said to be redeemed from, that he obtained presently for his Seed. Now we are not only said to be redeemed from the Wrath to come, but from all Iniquity, Tit. 2.14. or from our vain Conversation, and that by his blood, 1 Pet. 1.18, 19.² This purchase therefore, he obtained presently by his Death. Neither can it be said, that then all his Seed should be immediately freed from their vain Conversation; For as Parisiensis doth observe well, As the sin of the first Adam doth not hurt his Seed, but in that they are his; so the Grace of the Second Adam, doth not actually profit his Seed, but in that they are his: But the Seed of Adam are his, as they receive Flesh from him when they are born; so the Seed of Christ are not his, but as they receive the Spirit from him, and when they are born again; but though the Seed of Christ have not this Image actually stamped on them, till they do believe, yet they have a right, both to Salvation, and Sanctification, immediately settled on them by the Death of Christ, as a Child may have a right to a Land, by the Purchase of his Father, before he comes of Age, though he be not actually possessed of the Land till he do come of Age: This Right therefore, and the Settlement of it upon the Seed of Christ, is another fruit, and immediate Effect of his Death and Sufferings.