Heautonaparnumenos

But yet, because this is the Command of Him who is [Greek or Hebrew], the Word and Reason of His Father; and our Design in this Point is, not to Draw but, Lead men to this Duty: Necessary it is we show you the Equity thereof: That the Injunction of this Duty flows, not from the mere Will of our Redeemer but, from the Nature of our Redemption, which exacts no less at our hands, if we mean to be Partakers of it. That we may partake of the Redemption wrought by Christ, 'tis necessary we be in Christ, as to partake of Adams Curse, 'tis necessary, we be reputed in Him. But in Christ we cannot be otherwise then by Representation, so therefore, and no otherwise are we reputed in Him. For, amongst other things He is likened unto for this purpose, as a Head, a Root, an Elder Brother, one notable resemblance of Him is to the First Fruits; therefore more then once he is called the First Fruits from the Dead, by virtue of whom we partake, not the Corporal only but also, the Spiritual Resurrection: Now, we know, the First Fruit is the Mass merely by a Representation of it, as we may see in the Law of the First Fruits, ¹Lev. 23. 10, 11. but more plainly by the Apostle, ²Rom. 11.16. If the first fruit, says he, be holy, the Mass is also holy. Represented then we are in Christ, as the Mass in the First Fruit, ³and so in Him God is well pleased with us. But now represented we cannot be without some Similitude and Conformity; as a Picture cannot represent a Man, if it be no ways like him. Accordingly, therefore, the Mass is ever like the First fruits, the First fruit being nothing else, but, as the Name imports, a certain portion taken out of the Common Mass or Heap: And so the Apostle says, there must be a Conformity betwixt us and Christ: ⁴that as we have borne the Image of the earthly Adam, so we must bear the Image of the Heavenly.

But yet, because this is the Command of Him who is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Word and Reason of His Father; and our Designe in this Point is, not to Draw but, Lead men to this Duty: Necessary it is we shew you the Equity thereof: That the Injunction of this Duty flowes, not from the meere Will of our Redeemer but, from the Nature of our Redemption, which exacts no lesse at our hands, if we meane to be Partakers of it. That we may partake of the Redemption wrought by Christ, 'tis necessary we be in Christ, as to partake of Adams Curse, 'tis necessary, we be reputed in Him. But in Christ we cannot be otherwise then by Representation, so therefore, and no otherwise are we reputed in Him. For, amongst other things He is likened unto for this purpose, as a Head, a Root, an Elder Brother, one notable resemblance of Him is to the First Fruits; therefore more then once he is called the First Fruits from the Dead, by vertue of whom wee partake, not the Corporall onely but also, the Spirituall Resurrection: Now, we know, the First Fruit is the Masse meerely by a Representation of it, as we may see in the Law of the First Fruits,