Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

It is true, Adam at his Creation had this spotless purity, so §. 13 had the Angels. But they came immediately from the ^hhand of ⟨p. 70⟩God, without concurrence of any secondary cause. ⁱJesus Christ is a plant and root of a dry Ground, a Blossom from the stem of Jesse, a Bud from the Loins of sinful man, borne of a Sinner, after there had been no innocent flesh in the World for 4000 years, every one upon the Roll of his Genealogy being infected there withal. To have a Flower of wonderful rarity to grow in Paradise, a Garden of Gods own planting, not sullied in the least, is not so strange: but as the Psalmist speaks (in another kind,) to hear of it in a Wood, to find it in a Forrest, to have a spotless Bud, brought forth in the Wilderness of corrupted nature, is a thing which Angels may desire to look into. Nay more! this whole nature, was not only defiled, but also accursed: not only unclean, but also guilty; guilty of Adam's Transgression in whom we have all sinned. That the humane Nature of Christ, should be derived from hence, free from guilt, free from pollution, this is to be adored.

It is true, Adam at his Creation had this spotlesse purity, so §. 13 had the Angells. But they came immediately from the ^hhand of ⟨p. 70⟩God, without concurrence of any secondary cause. ⁱJesus Christ is a plant and root of a dry Ground, a Blossome from the stemme of Jesse, a Bud from the Loynes of sinfull man, borne of a Sinner, after there had been no innocent flesh in the World for 4000 yeares, every one upon the Roll of his Genealogy being infected there withall. To have a Flower of wonderfull rarity to grow in Paradise, a Garden of Gods own planting, not sullyed in the least, is not so strange: but as the Psalmist speaks (in another kind,) to heare of it in a Wood, to find it in a Forrest, to have a spotlesse Bud, brought forth in the Wildernesse of corrupted nature, is a thing which Angells may desire to look into. Nay more! this whole nature, was not only defiled, but also accursed: not only uncleane, but also guilty; guilty of Adam's Transgression in whom we have all sinned. That the humane Nature of Christ, should be derived from hence, free from guilt, free from pollution, this is to be adored.