felfe ...tnrtchtng.~'!_amjn_ation. him as he was in that efrare, the Cedar of Para-– dife, the Picture of Heaven, the glory of the Earth, the Gove:nour;of t~e world) and ~h e Lords owne Darltng and dehght_. But he bemf! . the father of all men, andfountaine of all gene- · rations following, did fufiaine the publike per– fan ofmankinde 1 both in his innocencie, and al– fo in his mifede, i~ his telicicy,and in his fall,and therefore we beingall in the very mom,ent ofhi · fall jg Adatnsloynes, did both fi:and and fall With him ; we were both happy wkh him in his per– fection, ·and helplelfe with him in his perdition. Neither fhould this feeme firange and une– quall that we fhould finne, and finke in.to mifery in .Adams loynes, being yet unborne. For the ·qmgruity and equity of it appeares many wayes: By the example ofAbr~thauJ, in whom Levi is 1 faid to have paid tithes to M_elchi.fodecke, which . was not borne fame hundred yeares after, : Beb~7.9, J o. · Of Rebtcca, who having two fonnes in f:er wornbe, is faid to have two Nations, Gen-:15 .2 3· ~ . ·Out of the fi-fi:h to the Romam, for even as the . { .. · righteoufneffeof ChrilHsreckoned tothofethat 1\ 2 8 beleeve in him, a1thongh they never did it, ·beom.f.17~~.' caufe they are one wid~ Chrifi; fo .the finne of , · Adam is reckoned to alL his pofi:erity, 'becaufe ~ . they were in)lim, · -and ~efhim,. and one with hinn. · Bythe congruity of nature, 'for,commonly.. the . 3 Leproufie, Stone, 9our, andotherdifeafes, are ;_ ' - derived
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