4 Put into a capacity of reconciliation, God being Þb! Chu) death made reconcilable, and alſo aQually reconcil'd wich 57 Believe, through the Merits of the Death of Chriſt. e 7. 7. By tix Reſurre&ion to Life, Salvation is aſcribed to the Reſurrection i! Life of Chriſt, becauſe he thereby doth perfe& our Salvation, 2 ever living to make Interceſſion for us, Heb. 7. 25. And becaulc by 0 ReſurreCtion and Life, we ſhall be raiſed to erernal Life acthat Dy.
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_d. Ir appears there was a Law, before the Law of Moſes, for if there had been no Law all that while, then fin would net have been impured ro men, ſo as to make them liable to puniſhment or death ; but ſin was imputed or charged upon men before the Law of Moſes, and death paſt upon all; therefore there muſt be a Law by the tranſgrefſion of which men were ſinners before that time : and that was either the Law of Nature, or the poſitive Law which God gave to Adam, the tranſgrefſion whereot is imputed to all, as we ſhall ſee, v. 19. - Some think the Apoſtle doth here obviate a Cavil. 9. d. Ler no man think that fin began to have its be- ing together with the Law, for ttere was fin before there wasany written Law to forbid it. The ſame a&s that were forbidden at- rerwards by the Law, were before committed, and were really ſ1n- ful in the ſight of God, But fin was not ſo well known, nor fo fri&ly charged upon the finner as, it 1s fince the Law was given It was not imputed comparatively, though abſolutely it was, as ma zppear by many Inſtances, asthe drowning of the World, the de- ſtruction of Sodom, Oc.
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