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.

Conclusion from the Premises.

1. That those Jewes and Christians that do yet expect the Restauration of the Jewes to Canaan, and to re-build Jerusalem upon her own heap, may look their eyes out before they shall see it: For though all the Kings and Princes

of the world should joyn their power and policy together to effect it, yet they shall not be able to effect ••t, unlesse they can first defeat the definitive Sentence of the justice of Christ which was first declared unto Daniel in v. 26. and doubled twice more in ver. 27. It is in vain▪ therefore for any to comfort the Jewes with the hope thereof, as some godly persons do through their misunderstanding of the mistical promises, that are made to the Elected Jewes of all Nations in the Pro∣phets.

2. As in former times the Jews would not believe Jeremy, when he told them that their City should be desolate for seventy years by the Baby onians: so (saith Mr. Broughton in Lam. 1. 11.) they did not now believe the Angel that told them of a second destruction, again and again, that their City should have a final destru∣ction: and saith he in his Epistle Dedicatory to Daniel, p. 2. Christ at his As∣cention began to Reign in the House of David for ever, and destroyed utterly as with a flood City and Temple, to shew that such outward things of mans work could not be fit to be meant in the most glorious promise to David; and saith he in his Concent (3960.) The openest enemies of Christ now are the Jews that denyed him: And the Romans by whose policy he was crucified; The King (Messias) was upon this to destroy the Kings own Nation, their City and Sanctuary; and he foretold them, that their place should be desolate, Matth. 24. And the proper token, when Jerusalem should be besieged by an Host, Luke 21. and referreth men to Dan. 9. where Gabriel teacheth the full Doctrine touching Christ, in ver. 24. and the destruction of the Jewes (in ver. 26, 27.) and the whole state and scope of the same: saying, If we let him go (as by his Resur∣rection they could not choose) All men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and destroy our place and Nation, John 11. 48. They confessed this Truth, and yet when Steven did affirm the same Truth, Namely, that Jesus of Nazareth would destroy that place (though he had the Countenance and the words of the Angel Gabriel when he spake it) they held it blasphemy in him, to speak so of their holy place, Acts 6. 14. And the Lord closely limited the time: saying, That Generation should not passe until all these things should b•• performed: and by most mens account it was forty years after the death and R••surrection of Christ, and so it falleth, a Day for a Year for their misbelieving of his Resur∣rection. Thus far out of Bro.