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Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses
Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses. / By Mr. Thomas Boston, late Minister of the Gospel at Etterick.
United States : s.n. Printed for the booksellers., M,DCC,LXXXVII. 1787
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Of the natural and supernatural Stocks, and the Branches, taken out of the former, and ingrafted into the latter.
I. Let us take a view of the stock, which the branches are taken out of. The two Adams, that is Adam and CHRIST, are the two stocks: for the scripture speaks of these two, as if there had never been more men in the world than they, 1 Cor. xv. 45. The first man ⟨p. 168⟩Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit. Ver. 47. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. And the reason is, there were never any, that were not branches of one of these two; all men being either in the one stock or in the other; for in these two sorts all mankind stands divided: Ver. 48. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, •u•• are they also that are heavenly. The first Adam then is the natural stock: on this stock are the branches found growing at first; which are afterwards cut off, and ingrafted into Christ. As for the fallen angels, as they had no relation to the first Adam, so they have none to second.
I. Let us take a view of the stock, which the branches are taken out of. The two Adams, that is Adam and CHRIST, are the two stocks: for the scripture speaks of these two, as if there had never been more men in the world than they, 1 Cor. xv. 45. The first man ⟨p. 168⟩Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a quickning Spirit. Ver. 47. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. And the reason is, there were never any, that were not branches of one of these two; all men being either in the one stock or in the other; for in these two sorts all mankind stands divided: Ver. 48. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, u are they also that are heavenly. The first Adam then is the natural stock: on this stock are the branches found growing at first; which are afterwards cut off, and ingrafted into Christ. As for the fallen angels, as they had no relation to the first Adam, so they have none to second.