And as, such an High Priest became us, so, truly such a way of justifying believing Sinners, became him; namely, it was becoming a person of such a transcendent worth and excellency, to justify his Redeemed in the most ample and glorious way; &c. by working out for them, and then investing them with, a Righteousness, adequate to the Law of God; a Righteousness, that should be every way commensurate to the miserable estate of fallen Man, and to the holy design of the glorious God. It was a becoming thing, that the second Adam might restore as good a Righteousness, as the first Adam lost; that this should justify as sully, as the other did condemn. 1This is the very design of that famous Parallel instituted by the Apostle between the two Adams, namely, to signify an equality, not of number in the persons receiving: but of efficacy in the persons deriving, and communicating what was their own, to either of their Seeds: The first Adam to his natural Seed, and the second Adam to his Spiritual Seed; to the end that Men and Angels might take notice, that Jesus Christ the second Adam, was not less Powerful to save, than the first Adam was to destroy: To which purpose ⟨p. 159⟩it is of great use to observe how exact the Apostle is, in setting the specialties of either Adams Legacy one over against the other, the wound and the cure, the damage and the reparation.
And as, such an High Priest became us, so, truly such a way of justifying believing Sinners, became him; namely, it was becoming a person of such a transcendent worth and excellency, to justifie his Redeemed in the most ample and glorious way; &c. by working out for them, and then investing them with, a Righteousness, adaequate to the Law of God; a Righteousness, that should be every way commensurate to the miserable estate of fallen Man, and to the holy design of the glorious God. It was a becoming thing, that the second Adam might restore as good a Righteousness, as the first Adam lost; that this should justifie as sully, as the other did condemn. 1This is the very designe of that famous Parallel instituted by the Apostle between the two Adams, namely, to signifie an equality, not of number in the persons receiving: but of efficacy in the persons deriving, and communicating what was their own, to either of their Seeds: The first Adam to his natural Seed, and the second Adam to his Spiritual Seed; to the end that Men and Angels might take notice, that Jesus Christ the second Adam, was not less Powerful to save, than the first Adam was to destroy: To which purpose ⟨p. 159⟩it is of great use to observe how exact the Apostle is, in setting the specialties of either Adams Legacy one over against the other, the wound and the cure, the dammage and the reparation.
- 1Rom. 5. from verse 15. to the last.
