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.

SECT. 13.

1. HE was anointed in his divine Nature, as himself doth testifie in Prov. * 1.1 8. 23. I was anointed from everlasting: that is to say, I was through all Eternity set apart in Gods eternal Councel and Decree, and so consequent∣ly by mine own consent and covenant to do the Office of a Mediator for the Redemption of fallen man: In this sence and after this manner Christ was intrinsecally anoynted in his divine Nature from Eternity to do the Office of a Mediator.

2. It was in this respect that Christ did justifie his Authority to do the Office of a Mediator, by saying thus to the blasphemous Jewes: say ye of him whom * 1.2 the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said I was the Son of God, John 10. 36. that is to say, the Father hath sancti∣fied me: (i.e. anoynted me, or set me apart) from Eternity in my divine Na∣ture, and consequently he hath now sent me into the World to do the Office of a Mediator extrinsecally, and therefore I do not blaspheme in saying that I am the Son of God: and to this sence doth Mr. Trap also expound th••s verse, and so doth our Annot. on the word Messias, in Dan. 9. 25. saying, That Christ was anoynted to the Office of the Mediator in both his Natures: But yet (saith the Annot.) he was anoynted in his Humane Nature only, as to the gifts of the holy Ghost collated upon it, and infused into it.

3. It was in this sence also that Jeremy was sanctified, set apart or anoynted to do the Office of a Prophet, before he came out of his mothers womb, Jer. 1. 5. and to this sence doth our larger Annot. speak on that place.

But this first kind of anoynting is not meant of the Messias in Dan. 9. 24.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Christ was four times anoynted after four seve∣ral manners.
• * 1.2

  Prov. 8. 32. John 10. 36.