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ADAM in Innocency and Integrity was in a state of perfect friendship with God, of beautiful conformity to His Image, and of sweetly Comfortable Communion with him; But alas! he continued very short time in that excellent state; for the entering in of sin, by his Transgressing the Law and condition of the Covenant of works, quite brake off the friendship, utterly disfigured and defaced the conformity, and altogether interrupted and put a stop to the Communion: He having thereby run himself and his Posterity under a forfeiture of that desirable state, and of all the Precious Privileges annexed to it, under which himself and they had lien Eternally, had not God in the depth of ⟨image 5⟩his infinite wisdom, and in the exceeding and unsearchable Riches of his free Grace and Mercy, devised and found out a way for taking off that forfeiture, By sending his Son made of a Woman, made under the Law, to Redeem them that were under the Law; who according to the Covenant of Redemption treated and Transacted, finally concluded and agreed betwixt Jehovah and him; having made a most costly, but a most Complete Satisfaction to Provoked Divine Justice for the debt of the Elect, In whose room, for that end he did surrogate and substitute himself, as their Surety and Cautioner, hath reestablished the friendship, restored the Conformity, and recovered the Communion: of which Glad tidings of great joy Publication is made in the Preached Gospel: the Tabernacle of the Ordinances whereof is reared up amongst men, that thereby God the Lord may dwell among them: These Ordinances in their institution and nature being means of Communion and fellowship betwixt God and men: Amongst which Divinely instituted Ordinances, that of the Lords Supper beareth expressly the name of the Communion, because, often and ordinarily the greatest measures and highest degrees of Communion with God in Christ attainable by sojourning and militant Saints here on Earth, are win at in the Participation of that Ordinance, the great pledge and love-token of our dying Lords dearest respect to his Disciples and followers, calling and obliging them, in the use thereof, to a Solemn Commemoration of him and of his love, and to a Public and avouched Declaration of his Death till he come again: Therefore is it beyond all other Gospel. Ordinances, as it were, railed about with such injunctions, Cautions, and warnings;

ADAM in Innocency and Integrity was in a state of perfect friendship with God, of beautifull conformity to His Image, and of sweetly Comfortable Communion with him; But alace! he continued very short time in that excellent state; for the entering in of sin, by his Transgressing the Law and condition of the Covenant of works, quite brake off the friendship, utterly disfigured and defaced the conformity, and altogether interrupted and put a stop to the Communion: He having thereby run himself and his Posterity under a forfeiture of that desireable state, and of all the Precious Priviledges annexed to it, under which himself and they had lyen Eternally, had not God in the depth of