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 death of Jesus, the undefiled, the sinless one, was a com- plete settlement toward God of the sin of Adam. As one man had sinned, and all in him had shared his curse, his penalty, so Jesus, having paid the penalty of that one sinner, bought not only Adam, but all of his posterity, all men who by heredity shared his weaknesses and sins and the penalty of these, death. Our Lord, " the man Christ Jesus," himself unblemished, approved, and with a perfect seed or race in him, unborn, likewise untainted with sin, gave his all of human life and title as the full ransom- price for Adam and the race or seed in him when sentenced. Having thus fully purchased the lives of Adam and his race, Christ offers to adopt as his seed, his children, all of Adam's race who will accept the terms of his New Covena&c and thus by faith come into his family the family of God and receive everlasting life. Thus the Redeemer will "see Ms seed [as many of Adam's seed as will accept adoption, upon his conditions] and prolong his days [resurrection to a higher than human plane, being granted him by the Father as a reward for his obedience],'* and all in the most unlikely way ; by the sacrifice of life and posterity. And thus it is written : "As all in Adam die, even so all in Christ shall be made alive/' Correfted translation > i Cor. 15:22.

The injury we received through Adam's fall (we suffered /io injustice) is, by God's favor, to be more than offset with favor through Christ ; and all will sooner or later (in God's same standing that Adam enjoyed before he sinned. Those who do not receive a full knowledge and, by faith, an en- joyment of this favor of God in the present time (and swcfa are the great majority, including children and heathen) will assuredly have these privileges in the next age, or " world to come," the dispensation or age to follow the present* T0 this end, " all that are in their glares . sfaali come
 * due time ") have a full opportunity to be restored to the

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