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Thirdly, When the Apostle maketh this comparison between the first Adam to condemnation and Christ to Justification, giving the superiority […] This is not to be understood in respect of the number of men, but of the nature of these gracious effects we hate by Christ. This comparison is not for express in quantity but quality. The Apostle doth not say, O, how many more (as the Pelagians of ••d applying Christs benefits to Infants bringing them to the Kingdom of Heaven, who yet (they said) received no polu•• […] hurt by Adam) but how much more shall the grace of God abound through Christ to many? The how much more lieth not in the number, but in the nature of these gracious ⟨p. 543⟩effect; which come by Christ, though to some only; for that the Apostle doth not intend an excess of Christ's grace, in respect of the number, it is plain, because that had been impossible, there could have been but an equality at most: If it should be granted, That Christ hath reconciled all those that Adam lost, this would be an equality only, we could not say, Christ redeemed more than Adam destroyed, for that could not have been; therefore it is plain, that the superabundance attributed by the Apostle to Christ, in respect of Justification, is to be understood intensively, not extensively, in respect of the nature of those blessed effects we receive by him, and so indeed there is a great transcendency in Christ in respect of Adam. For

Thirdly, When the Apostle maketh this comparison between the first Adam to condemnation and Christ to Justification, giving the superiority 〈…〉 This is not to be understood in respect of the number of men, but of the nature of these gracious effects we hate by Christ. This comparison is not for expresse in quantity but quality. The Apostle doth not say, O, how many more (as the P•l•gians of ••d applying Christs benefits to Infants bringing them to the Kingdom of Heaven, who yet (they said) received no polu•• 〈…〉 hurt by Adam) but how much more shall the grace of God abound through Christ to many? The how much more lieth not in the number, but in the nature of these gracious