A brief view of the state of mankind in the first Adam and the second Adam being the sum of many larger discourses upon that great context of the redemption and mediation of Jesus Christ / by T. Beverley.

The Application, and Use of this first Proposition, is;

1. The Consideration of Hu∣mane Nature Enstated at first in its Common Parent, as its Head and Mediator, Furnish'd with the Life of Righteousness and Holiness, in a State of Fa∣vor with God, and in the Assu∣rance of a Blessed Immortality, and yet so wofully Fallen by our First Parent, should ex∣ceedingly Humble and Abase us before God, in a just Sense of our Fallen Condition; as be∣ing the effect of our own dis∣loyalty in Adam, our Repre∣sentative, and in whom we may see our own Falseness, and the great Faithfulness of God to us.

2. It Teaches us to Adore the Grace of God in Jesus Christ,

so Blessed a Mediator, who can∣not fail us, to fly to Him, as our onely security, both from the Ruine we are fallen into by Adam, and also from our own False Righteousness, that seems to remain to us, and from the Treachery and Falseness of our own Hearts, and Resolu∣tions in Holiness: All our Se∣curity is in Christ alone, and in dependency on Him.

3. We should therefore look most diligently to this, that we are Found in the Second Adam, the Head of our Recovery, who so much excells the First Adam, though he had not fallen; how much more, when he is Fallen, and become the Head of Ruine and Apostacy, For he onely, who by being in the Son, hath the Son, He only hath Life, but who hath not the Son, hath not* 1.1 Life, but the Wrath of God abides upon Him.

Notes

• * 1.1

  1 John ••. 12. John. 3. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.