v. 21. For as the Father raifeth up the Dead, and quickeneth: even fo the Son quickeneth whom he will; for the Father judgeth no Man; but bath committed all Judgment unto the Son.. Man was created for the fpiritual State, not for this fleshly State; though he had no need at first of being regenerated, nor of Sufpenfion by Death, yet he must have been changed, made fpiritual, fitted for that State. But his Confcience being free from any Evidence or Knowledge of Guilt in him, he could not have feared a Change.

This Regeneration is moft clearly expreffed by the most natural Ideas, which can poffibly be offered to Man, but are to be taken spiritu ally.

A typical Manifeftation was made of the Perfon and the Manner by which the Adamab dead, alive or to live, was to be cleanfed; and before it came, the Soul which, fhould believe and hope for this and its Confequences, fhould together with his Body and Soul, (which were of the fame Subftances as others, and for any Thing we know were under the fame Sentence) have the Benefit. When this Perfon came his Body and Soul were to be given, begotten and fanctified by the three Perfons, fo that it was made fit for one of them to inhabit. So that though he was born of Adamah, his Mother which was under this Curfe, (notwithstanding what is afferted by the Romans) not without Sin, yet by their Affiftance, and the Power of that one in him, at the Age of thirteen Years, he knew

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what was his Father's Business, and set about it, was enabled to understand the Defign of the Scriptures, as appears (Luk. ii. 46.) by his Difcourse with the Doctors; (which the Jews fay was an Examination to fee whether he was qualified to eat the Paffover) was preserved from committing actual Sin, and enabled from his Birth, to the Time when he entered upon his minifterial Office of Prophet, to know what was his Father's Bufinefs and fet about it, to perform all Righteousness towards God and towards Men in a Degree equal to what all Mankind could have performed; to enter the Lifts with Satan, and to refift Temptations which if they had been permitted, would have feduced all Men, if each had till then been in a perfect State, and vanquished him for them. These things are scarce mentioned in the N. T. because they are set forth in Hieroglyphicks, in Types, and in Words, clearly and fully in the Pfalms, in every Article, to the most minute Circumftance; and fome Parts alfo in the Prophets.

As the Genefis of Mofes (Chap. ii. v. 4. auty n BiBros yeVErews, nn) gives us Accounts of the Generations of the Names, of the Earth, of Men &c. and of their Destruction; how all of them became disagreeable to God by the Fall of Man; and of Shadows of a Renewer; the Manner of renewing &c. fo the New Teftament including the Apocalypfe, gives an Account of the Regeneration of fuch Men as had or should accept;

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accept; and thereby of making them (2 Cor. v. 17. If any Man be in Chrift, he is a new Creature-behold all Things are become new. Gal. vi. 15. In Chrift Jefus neither Circumcifion availeth any Thing, nor Uncircumcifion, but a new Creature) and even the reft of the other Parts of the Creation, what they were at first, good, clean, and agreeable to his Design; fo even new Heavens and new Earth, new Creatures, (Acts x. 12.) &c. which the whole Creation, (Rom. viii. 19, 20, 21, 22.) groaned for. * Mat. i. 1. Βίβλος γενέσεως Ιησε Χρισε-The Book of the Ge neration of Jefus Chrift, not of his Pedigree, Genealogy, Karaλoxiσμos, wп', or lineal Defcent backward or downward from Adam, nor from Abraham or David; but of the new Manner of his being begotten, as Luke iii. 22. &c. and forward of his generating Sons of God, of himself, by Baptifm, by Water, by regenerating those who were begotten in the Similitude of Adam into his own Similitude.

Chrift's Effence, or both Humanity and Divinity, was begotten by the Oath, Heb. vii. 28. The Law makes Men high Priests the Word of the Oath-makes the Son 2 Joh. iii, And from the Lord Jefus Chrift the Son of the Father. His Humanity was begotten in a double Senfe, (Luke i. 35. Joh, i. 14.) one either by the Effence or Father, as to Production; the other, Mat. i. 18, 20. by the Holy Ghost as to Sanctification, If. liii. 8. Who shall declare

* See this farther explained at the End of the Book.

bis Generation? This reconciles what I could not fee till now, how the fame Word, upon the fame Person fignifies both Generation and Fire.

Tophet If. xxx. 33. is the Place where they burnt Children to Moloch, (hence non Dan. iii. 3. are Priests to the Fire) and is the Subftance, which Fire acts in, Ezek. xxiv. 5, 9. fo If. iv. 4. When the Lord fhall have washed away the Filth of the Daughter of Sion-by the Spirit of burning. ix. 5. Every Battle of the Warriour is with confufed Noife but this fhall be. with burning and Fewel of Fire. For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given. The Child inferior, the Son equal. See M. Prin. pt. 2. p. 387. Introduction to M-Sine Prin. p. 259. 261. Trinity of the Gentiles p. 39.71.

This Generation and Birth is the Effect of washing us by Chrift and fanctifying us by the Holy Ghoft, producing Faith. 1. Joh. v. 1. Whofoever believeth that Jefus is the Chrift, is born of God. Gal. iii. 26. For ye are all the Children of God, through Faith in Jefus Chrift. So by Brotherhood, by Adoption Rom. viii. 17. If Children, then heirs. This is not that fupernatural Faith (1 Cor. xiii. 2.) to work Miracles, but that which works inwardly; produces Love of the Aleim and Men *: which gives

*Cor. 4. xiii. And though I have all Faith so that I could remove Mountains, and have no Charity, I am Nothing-Charity fuffereth long, and is kind &c. Gal. v. 6. In Jefus Chrift neither Circumcifion availeth any Thing, nor Uncircumcifion, but Faith which worketh by Love. 1 Tim. i. 5. Now the End of the Commandment is Charity out of Faith unfeigned Life

Life *. John i. 12. But as many as received him, to them gave be Power to become Sons of God, to them that believe on his Name, which were borniii. 3. Except a Man be born again [from above] he cannot fee the Kingdom of God, 5. Except a Man be born of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. 6. That which is horn of the Spirit is Spirit. 8. The Wind bloweth where it lifteth, &c.

So is every one that is born of the Spirit. vii. 38. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath faid, out of his Belly fall flow Rivers of living Water. But this Spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him fhould receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jefus was not yet glorified. xvii. 11. Holy Father keep through thine own Name thofe which thou haft given me, that they may be one as we. 21. That they all may be one, as thou Father in me and I in thee; that they also may be one in us. Rom. v. 17, 18, 19. vii. 14. For we know that the Law is fpiritual. viii. 2. For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Chrift Jefus hath made me free from the Law of Sin and Death.

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And if Chrift be in you the Body is dead, because of Sin, but the Spirit is Life because of Righteoufnefs. But if the Spirit of him that raised

*Hab. ii. 4. The juft fhall live by his Faith; cited Róm. i. 17. Gal. iii. 11. and Heb. x. 58. John. iii. 36. He that believeth on the Son hath eternal Life. 1 Joh. v. 11. God has given to us eternal Life, and this Life is in his Son.

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