.204 ' Adam tht' 11atural Stod o/ 111/ .J11m, State HI. Of the tJatural and fupernaturalJlo~kf, and the bran&hes, -tal.t n out ~(~he former, and i11gra[ted into tht laTter, I. Let us take a view of the flock, wHch the branches are taken out of. fhe two Adams, that is Adam and Chrift, ·are t~e two flo.cks: for thJe.fcripiure fpeaks of thefe two, as . if there bC!d never been more men in the wor.ld than they, , . r Cor. xv 4S. 'The fir:Ji man Adam tUJt:U made a living Jottl, the la/J Adam was made a quic'J.ning Spirit . Ver. 47.• 'The jirjl man iJ of the Mrth , earthy: the ftcondman is the Lord from btaven. And thr reafon is, there never were any, that were not branches of one of thefe two; all men being either in the one Hock, or in the other; for in thefe two forts all mankind flands divided, ver. 48. As iJ the tarthy, · . · 'ju&h are they aljo that are earthy: and a1 is the heawnly, ju(h are th'ey aljo th,at are heavenly. The firft Ad1.1m th en i~ the natural fi1 ock: on tllis rwck are the ' brar, chc~ found growing at firfi, vihich are afterwards cut df, and ingraft– ed into -Chrift. As for the f<l llenangels, as ihey had no re– lation to the firil: Adam, fo they have nooe to the fecond. There are four thi ngs t0 be rem~mbered here, ( 1.) rhat aH ,mankind (the m<m .Ch rilt excepted) are naturally branches ·of the firft Adam,,_ Rom. v., 12 . By o11c man .fin entered int() the ttJ)orld, and death by fin,' ~nd fo a'eath pa.fed upon all men. (2.) The bond whic t1knit us unto the natural Hock, was tlae covenant of works Adam being our natural root, was made the moral root alfo; _bearing all his poH:erity, as reprefenting them in the coven ant of works For, by on: man'1 dijobedience 'Hlll.n)' were made finnerJ, Rom. v. 19. Now, there bthoved to be a pecu liar relation betwixt that ~ne man aod the many, as a fotindation for imputing his fin to' them. This relation did not atiie from the mere natural I , ' . bond betwixt him and U!!, as ·of a father to his children; for · ' fo ~e are related to our immediate parents, whofe fins are · not the reupon imputed to ,us as Adam's fin is It behove~ then to arife from a moral bond betwix~ Adam and os, the bond of a cover.ant, which coul~ be no other than the co– venant of works, wherein we were united to him as bran– -ches to a fioc'k. Hence Jefus Chri(t, though a fon of Adam, Luke iii. 2 i. 38. was none Q[ tbefe br-anches; for feeing he Cjlme not of AdaPt, in virtue of ' the b'lefl'ing of marr~age, which
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=