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And first, as to the Mercies which on God's part are made over to Man in the second Co∣venant, the sum thereof is the Seed of the Woman, or the send∣ing Christ to take upon him the nature of Man, and to be as a second Adam to supply what was wanting in the first, and to per∣form that sinless Obedience which
was the Condition of the first Co∣venant; he being both in Birth and Conversation absolutely in∣nocent. And though the thus sending of Christ (the second Person of the ineffable Trinity) be the abridgement of all the Mercies of the second Cove∣nant; yet under this Title ma∣ny Benefits are contain'd. For you are not to imagine that the Son of God came only to gaze upon the Miseries, and to condole the Wretchedness of that Nature he had taken, or to pass by us as the Priest and Levite did the wounded Tra∣veller: but with the good Sa∣maritan, he bound up our Sores, and provided us of all those means of recovery whereof we were utterly destitute, and put us in a right way of being and continuing healthy. And this he did,