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PART II.

CHAPTER I.

Of the Covenant of Grace.

SECTION 1.

WHEN Adam and Eve had broken the first Covenant, into which it had pleased their good and wise Creator to admit them, by Sin, which is the transgression of the law; had fallen from their state of innocence and blessedness; and had themselves incurred and entailed upon all mankind, who were to apring from them by natural propagation, the wrath of God, and the punishment due to their disobedience; when placed in this hopeless situation, unable to effect by any means in their power a reconciliation with their offended Maker, or to obtain a mitigation of the doom which they had wilfully and knowingly drawn down upon themselves;-when in the very act of adding to the enormity of their guilt by false excuses and insinuations :-then did the Almighty manifest his tender mercy and providential grace, even before he pronounced sentence on his

PART II.

CHAPTER I.

Of the Covenant of Grace.

SECTION 1.

WHEN Adam and Eve had broken the first Covenant, into which it had pleased their good and wise Creator to admit them, by Sin, which is the transgression of the law; had fallen from their state of innocence and blessedness; and had themselves incurred and entailed upon all mankind, who were to spring from them by natural propagation, the wrath of God, and the punishment due to their disobedience; when placed in this hopeless situation, unable to effect by any means in their power a reconciliation with their offended Maker, or to obtain a mi. tigation of the doom which they had wilfully and knowingly drawn down upon themselves;-when in the very act of adding to the enormity of their guilt by false excuses and insinuations:-then did the Almighty manifest his tender mercy and providential grace, even before he pronounced sentence on

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