The covenant of nature made with Adam described and cleared from sundry great mistakes. And thereby proving, I. That the kind of death that was threatned in that covenant, in Gen. 2.17. ought not to be understood of any other kind of death but of a double spiritual death, 1. By depriving Adam of Gods concreated image: and 2. By corruption of nature that followed thereupon. II. Proving that the said covenant was totally extinguished and made utterly null, as soon as Adam had but tasted of the forbidden fruit, and received the said threatned punishment. III. Expounding Gal. 3.10. and proving that the curse therein threatned must not be understood of the curse of the said covenant of nature, but of that curse that is threatned in the covenant of grace to the fallen posterity of Adam, for their not doing of Moses law by faith in Christ, which was given to them for the covenant of grace and reconciliation only. ... VIII. Expounding Rom. 8.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8. in ch. 25. By William Pynchon.

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Title: The covenant of nature made with Adam described and cleared from sundry great mistakes. And thereby proving, I. That the kind of death that was threatned in that covenant, in Gen. 2.17. ought not to be understood of any other kind of death but of a double spiritual death, 1. By depriving Adam of Gods concreated image: and 2. By corruption of nature that followed thereupon. II. Proving that the said covenant was totally extinguished and made utterly null, as soon as Adam had but tasted of the forbidden fruit, and received the said threatned punishment. III. Expounding Gal. 3.10. and proving that the curse therein threatned must not be understood of the curse of the said covenant of nature, but of that curse that is threatned in the covenant of grace to the fallen posterity of Adam, for their not doing of Moses law by faith in Christ, which was given to them for the covenant of grace and reconciliation only. ... VIII. Expounding Rom. 8.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8. in ch. 25. By William Pynchon.
Author: Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.
Publication: London :: printed for the author, and are to be sold at the Bishops-head in St. Pauls Church-yard,; 1662.
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Cite this Item: "The covenant of nature made with Adam described and cleared from sundry great mistakes. And thereby proving, I. That the kind of death that was threatned in that covenant, in Gen. 2.17. ought not to be understood of any other kind of death but of a double spiritual death, 1. By depriving Adam of Gods concreated image: and 2. By corruption of nature that followed thereupon. II. Proving that the said covenant was totally extinguished and made utterly null, as soon as Adam had but tasted of the forbidden fruit, and received the said threatned punishment. III. Expounding Gal. 3.10. and proving that the curse therein threatned must not be understood of the curse of the said covenant of nature, but of that curse that is threatned in the covenant of grace to the fallen posterity of Adam, for their not doing of Moses law by faith in Christ, which was given to them for the covenant of grace and reconciliation only. ... VIII. Expounding Rom. 8.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8. in ch. 25. By William Pynchon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56361.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.

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Conclusion.

From the said assertions of Grotius and others, it follows,

1. That the truer opinion is, that no man can become a surety, by inga∣ging his life to be taken away for the fault of capital delinquents, because no man hath right over his own life; and therefore those examples which M^r Norton hath alledged, for taking away of the life of innocent sureties, for the personal faults of others, in pag. 131, 132, 133. though they past for good justice in his erroneous judgements: and that God by the like justice did punish Christ as the Surety of the Elect, (by imputing their sinnes to him,) with the vindicative punishments of the Covenant of na∣ture, (which was a twofold spiritual death,) and also with the vindiea∣tive punishments of the Covenant of grace, by inflicting on him the essen∣tial torments of Hell, which are due to no others by Gods Law, but to unbelievers only: yet it will not passe for good justice by the Rules afore∣said.

2. Though he hath cited Grotius for the confirmation of his said asserti∣on, yet now he may see, that I have cited Grotius (in his after-considerati∣ons) to be point-blank against him.

3. Seeing M^r Norton doth acknowledge that Grotius is a man that doth excell in this kind of learning, he ought to take the more notice of his re∣formed judgement.

4. That God (according to Grotius judgement) cannot by the Rules of his justice, punish Christ as a sinner, with any proper punishments, un∣lesse he can make it appear, that Christ was a true personall sinner: for Grotius doth affirme,

"that the merit of true punishment is per∣sonall.

5. From hence we may see a true rule of direction, how to understand all those Scriptures that speak of the sufferings of Christ, from Gen. 3. 15. to the end of the Revelation: namely, not of true punishments, but of pu∣nishments improperly so called; because God in Gen. 3. 15. gave the De∣vil a liberty of power to pierse him in the foot-soales, as a sinnefull malefa∣ctor on the tree, with all possible reproach and torture, to provoke his passions to some sinnefull distemper if he could. But in Gods intent it was to make full proofe of the obedience of Christ, before he could make his death to be accepted as a most pleasing sacrifice, for the procuring of his Fathers Reconciliation, for the Redemption of the Elect from Satans head∣plot.