ROM. V. 19.

For as by one Man's Difobedience many were made Sinners.

IM Gen. i. 26. which confifted,

AN was made in the Image of GOD,

1. Partly in his Power and Dominion over all Terrestrial Creatures, Gen. i. 26, 28. Pfal. viii. 5, 6. Hence he gave Names, Gen. i. 19, 20.

2. In the Perfection of his Nature, indued with Reason and Will, and with Knowledge and True Holinefs.

1. Knowledge, Col. iii, 9, 10.
2. True Holiness, Eph. iv. 24.

II. He was commanded not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Gen.ii. 16. which was backed with a Threatning to keep his Senfes in Obedience and Subjection to his Reason.

III. Man notwithstanding did eat of it.

1. Through Satan's Temptation; which was managed with great Cunning.

1. He enters into the Serpent, the fubtileft Creature, Gen. iii. 1.

2. Sets upon the Woman, the weaker Veffel, I Pet. iii. 7.

3. He propounds a doubtful Question, Gene

fis 111. I.

4. Then

4. Then he denies the Truth of God's Threatnings, ver. 4.

5. Gives her a contrary Promife, ver. 5.

6. Ufeth the Name of God to confirm it, ver. 5. 2. Through the Woman's Fault.

1. In entring into a Difpute with the Devil. 2. In doubting of the Truth of God's Command.

3. In eating the Fruit.

3. Man's too. In taking the Fruit at her Hands, and eating it; whereby he broke all the Law. In bac lege Ada datâ omnia præcepta condita recognefcimus, quæ poftea pullulaverunt data per Mofen.

Tertull.

And fo he broke,

1. The First Command, by Infidelity, Ingratitude, Contempt of God; Ambition to be like God, Gen. iii. 5.

2. Hearkening to the Devil's Word more than to God's, and fo worshipping him.

3. Profaning God's Name, and blafpheming it, by preferring the Devil before him.

4. Profaning the Sabbath, by doing it upon that Day.

5. Eve in not confulting her Husband, and he in pleasing his Wife more than God.

6. Murdering their whole Pofterity,Job.viii.44. 7. In minding the Lufts of the Fleth more than the Law of God.

8. In stealing God's Fruit, and being dif contented with their prefent Condition.

9. By paffing a falfe Judgment upon the Fruit, and receiving a falfe Accufation against

God.

10. Evil Concupifcence, and coveting the Things belonging to another.

IV. By this Difobedience of Adam, many, even all his Pofterity, are made Sinners.

1. By Imputation. His Sin is reckoned to all. As appears,

1. In that all finned in him, Rom. v. 12. Heb. vii. 9, 10. Rom. v. 16, 17, 18.

2. All died in Adam, 1 Cor. XV. 22. Rom. vi. 23. 3. All were then in his Loins: So that he was the common Father of all Mankind; therefore called Adam, that is, Man in general, Gen. V. I.

2. By Inhesion. All, by reason of Adam's Sin, are made Sinners. 1. All are born in Sin, Eph. ii. 3. Job. iii. 6. Children die,

3.

Pfal. li. 5. Job xiv. 4.
Hence only it is that

2. All do actually commit Sin, which shews all Mankind to be polluted with it, and inclined to it, Ecclef. vii. 20. Prov. xx. 9. ■ Reg. viii. 46. Gal. iii. 22. 1 Joh. i. 8, 10. The whole Man is defiled with Sin, and continually fubject to it.

1. The Understanding, 1 Cor. i. 19, 20. c. ii.

14.

2. The Mind and Conscience, Tit. i. 15. It is ftupid and fencelefs, 1 Tim. iv. 2. or elfe troubled.

3. The Memory, 2 Pet. i 12. in remembring only the worft, forgetting the beft Things. 4. The Thoughts and Imagination, Gen. vi. 5. which appears in their Vanity and Disorder. 5. The Will and Affections, Job. i. 13, Col. iii. 2, in being placed, either,

1. Upon unlawful Objects.

2. Or upon lawful Objects in an unlawful Manner.

4.

6. The Body, 1 Thef. v. 23.

It is not now ferviceable to the Soul.
But a Clog to it,

Yea, tempts and feduces it to Sin.

Hence our Original Sin is the corrupt Fountain from whence all our actual Sins flow, Fac. i. 14.

Some Relicks of it remain in the best Saints, Gal. V. 17.

US E.

1. This fhould make us low and humble in our own Eyes, Job xv. 14, 15, 16.

2. Hence we fhould earnestly defire to be born again, and made new Creatures: For otherwife, our Condition is fad indeed, and very deplorable.

3. Hence we should go to Chrift the Second Adam, that we may be made Righteous by him, as we are Sinners by the First..

ROM.

ROM. V. 19.

So by the Obedience of One, shall maay be made Righteous.

W Man, but only One in general.

THO is this One fpoken of? Not one

1. All Mankind being contained in, and fo fallen with Adam, God raised up another Adam, by whom they might rife, 1 Cor. xv. 45. Who being promifed as foon as the firft fell, Gen. iii. 15. is called the Second Man, I Cor. XV. 47.

2. This was no lefs a Perfon than the Son of God made Man, Job. i. 14. 1 Tim. iii. 16. For he took the Nature of Man into his Divine Perfon, Heb. ii. 16.

3. Hence the whole Nature of Man was as fully and really contained in him as in the First Adam, 1 Cor. XV. 22.

4. This the Second Man had this extraordinary Advantage over the Firft; that whereas the other was but a Man made in the Likeness of God, this was God made in the Likeness of Man, Phil. ii. 6, 7.

II. What was the Obedience of this One here fpoken of?

1. He did no Sin, was not guilty in the least, Ifa. liii. 9. 1 Pet. ii. 22. 1 Job. iii. 5. Job. viii. 46.

2. He did whatsoever the Law required; and fo remained perfectly Righteous in all Things, Matt. iii. 15. Heb. vii. 26, 27, 28. “Tròv eis αἰῶνα τελειωμένον, Joh. xv. Io. c. iv. 34.