The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

2. John Baptist was begotten after the ordinary way of Generation of all mankind that were in the loins of Adam, by Zechariah and Elizabeth. But Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost in the womb of a Virgin, and therefore that holy thing that was born of her is called the Son of God. He was made under the Law, Gal. 4.4. as a rule of the life of man, but the vindictive justice of the Law had nothing to say unto him, because he had no sin, vindictive justice had no more to say to Jesus then it had to say to Adam at his first Creation. Adam was created under the Law as a rule of life, but vindictive justice had nothing to say unto him, until he had sinned; but so soon as he had sinned, then the Law condemned him, and punished him. Jesus was in the state of innocent Adam, and so under the Law as a rule of life. but not in the state of fallen Adam, to be under sin and vindictive justice.

2. John Baptist was begotten after the ordinary way of Generation of all mankind that were in the loins of Adam, by Zacharias and Elizabeth. But Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost in the womb of a Virgin, and therefore that holy thing that was born of her is called the Son of God. He was made und•r the Law, Gal. 4.4. as a rule of the life of man, but the vindictive justice of the Law had nothing to say unto him, because he had no sin, vindictive justice had no more to say to Jesus then it had to say to Adam at his first Creation. Adam was created under the Law as a rule of life, but vindictive justice had nothing to say unto him, untill he had sinned; but so soon as he had sinned, then the Law condemned him, and punished him. Jesus was in the state of innocent Adam, and so under the Law as a rul• of life. but not in the state of fallen Adam, to be under sin and vindictive justice.

When Jesus Christ performed the Office of a Mediator, and stood as a public person, by voluntary dispensation, he suffered the guilt of Adams sin, and all our sins to be imputed to him, as to our Surety, he voluntarily submitted to vindictive justice, to punish him in our stead, but in his personal state he was as pure from any stain of sin, as Adam was at his first Creation, so that herein was a great difference betwixt Jesus and John.