18The Patties in the Secondly,Our Lord Jefus Chrifi being, in the phra; feology of the holy Ghofi, the lafi Adam, the reafon hereof cannot be taken frotn the nature common to the firfi Adam and him ; for all mankind partake of .that : but for their common office offederal headfhip and reprefentation, in theirrefpeCtive covenants touch– ing man's eternal happinef5;; the which.is peculiar un~ to Adttm, and .the man Chrijl . Accordingly, Adam is called the fir(i man, and Chrifi the .fecond man, I · Cor. xv. 47· but Chrifi is no otherwife the fecond man, than as he is the fecond federal head, or the reprefen· tative in the fecond covenant. ; as Adam was the firfi: federal head, or the reprefentative in the firfi covenant. Agreeable to which, . the Apofile reprefents Adam as the head of the earthy men, and Chrifi as the head of heavenly men. Ver. 48. The former being thefe 'who bear Adam's image, namely, alf his natural feed ; the lattir,thofe who ·partake of the image ofChrifi, namely, his fpiritual feed, ver. 49· All this is confirmed from Adam's being a figure or type of Chrifi,. which the a• · pofi.le exprefly afferts, Rom. v. 14. and from the parallel he draws betwixt them two, namely, that as by Adam's covenant breaking; fin and death came on all that were his, fo by Chrifi's covenant-keeping, · ,. righteou(nefs and life come to all that are his, ver. 17, 18, 19. Wherefore, as the firfi covenant was made with Adam, as the head and reprefentative of his na· tural feed ; fo the fecond cove11ant was made with Chrifi, as the heq.d am\ repre~entative of his fpiri"tual feed. Thirdly, As the firfi man was called Adam, that is to fity, man; ~e being 'the head and reprefentative of mankind, the perfon in whom God treated with a,ll men, his,natural feed in the firfi coven~nt: and on the other hand, all men therein reprefented by him, do in the language of the holy. Gnofi, go under ~he name of Adam, Pfalm xxxix. s, 11 . ' Surely every man' (in the Original it is, 11/l.lldam) is va11ity : fo Chriil: · · bears ,.
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