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Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the…Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the…
Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by James Young for Thomas Underhill, 1647
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In the second place, another argument to confirm that God 1dealt in a Covenant with Adam is, in that his posterity becomes guilty of his sin, and so obnoxious unto the same punishment which was inflicted upon Adam in his own person. Now we must come to be thus in Adam, either by a natural propagation, and then Adam should be no more to us then our parents, and our parents sins should be made ours as well as Adams; which is contrary to ⟨p. 124⟩the Apostle, Rom. 5. who chargeth it still upon one man. And besides, who can say, that the righteousness, holiness and happiness, which we should have been partakers of in Adams standing, could come by a natural necessity, but only by the mere covenant and agreement of God? Adams repentance might then have been imputed to us, as well as his sin.
In the second place, another argument to confirme that God 1dealt in a Covenant with Adam is, in that his posterity becomes guilty of his sin, and so obnoxious unto the same punishment which was inflicted upon Adam in his own person. Now we must come to be thus in Adam, either by a naturall propagation, and then Adam should be no more to us then our parents, and our parents sins should be made ours as well as Adams; which is contrary to ⟨p. 124⟩the Apostle, Rom. 5. who chargeth it still upon one man. And besides, who can say, that the righteousnesse, holinesse and happinesse, which we should have been partakers of in Adams standing, could come by a naturall necessity, but onely by the meere covenant and agreement of God? Adams repentance might then have been imputed to us, as well as his sin.
- 12. Because his posterity becomes guilty of his sin, and obnoxious to his punishment.