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 His hating Sin he in this Work doth prove,

While he the Sinner doth entirely love;

And each Thing needful for the Sinner's Caſe,

Was all into the Covenant of Grace

Concerted 'twixt the Father and the Son,

Which was from all Eternity begun:

So that the Cure for Adam's lapſed State,

Did take its Riſe from an eternal Date.

And now when Adam came to underly

This dire Diſeaſe and deadly Malady,

Mercy the Cure did very ſoon apply.

Ev'n at a Time when Man could nought expect

But divine Vengeance on his Head to break,

The Lord, of whom he juſtly was afraid,

Appeareth firſt in Mercy to his Aid;

Or e'er the Lord againſt the guilty Man

One Word of threatning to bring forth began,

God's Thoughts of Love to Adam forth did break

In heavy Threats againſt the tempting Snake.

When God did promiſe, that the Woman's Seed

Should give a Bruiſe unto the Serpent's Head,

Then this Expreſſion in it did imply,

That wonderful ſtupendous Myſtery,

The ſecond Perſon of the Trinity,

He ſhould for Man thus abject, and forlorn,

Become a Man, and be of Woman born.

Then on the Serpent and his Seed he was

For to revenge his Friends and Brethrens Cauſe;

As Satan he the Woman did employ

The human Race to ruin and deſtroy,