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. 52. 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 hac 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 Flesh more than the Law of God.

8. In ftealing 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 Inhefion. All, by reason of Adam's Sin, are made Sinners. 1. All are born in Sin, Eph. ii. 3. Job. iii. 6. Children die.

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. 1 Reg. viii. 46. Gal. iii. 22. 1 Joḥ. i. 8, 10. The whole Man is defiled with Sin, and continually fubject to it.

1. The Understanding, I Cor. i. 19, 20. c. ii. 14.

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

3. The Memory, 2 Pet. i. 12. in remembring. only the worft, forgetting the best 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.

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

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

Yea, tempts and feduces it to Sin.

4. 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.

USE.

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

2. Hence we should earneftly 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 many be made Righteous.

LW Man, but only One in general.
I. THO is this One spoken of? Not one
WHO

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 first
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 First; 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 spoken of?

1. He did no Sin, was not guilty in the leaft, 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' dis ☀ αἰῶνα τελειωμένον, Joh. xv. Io. c. iv. 34·

3.

He was Obedient even to Death it felf,
Phil. ii. 8. So that he underwent that Death
which the Firft Adam had deferved for all
Mankind.

III. In what Sense are many here faid to be made Righteous by One? Even in the fame Senfe as we are before said to be made Sinners by One.

1. By having Chrift's Righteousness, as we had Adam's Sin imputed to us.

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1. No Man can be pronounced Righteous by God, unless he be really fo, Prov. xvii. 15. Ifa. v. 23:

2. But no Man is really Righteous in himself, Ecclef. vii. 20.

3. Hence it is impoffible we fhould be accepted of as Righteous before God, unless we have fome other Righteousness imputed to us, Rom. iv. 6, 11.

4. Hence Chrift was pleased to be Obedient even to Death for us; that fo by his Obedience imputed to us, we might be accepted of as Righteous.

For,

1. Our Righteousness is plainly afferted to be only in Chrift, 2 Cor. v. 21.

He was made Sin for us.

Quemadmodum oblatus pro peccatis non immerito peccator factis dicitur. Ambrof.

Our Sins were laid on him, Ifa. liii. 6.

So his Righteousness on us, Phil. iii. 8, 9.
Eph. i. 6.

2. He is exprefly called our Righteousness,
Jer. xxiii. 6. c. xxxiii. 16. 1 Cor. i. 30.