II6 An Expojition of the Epiflle ~ us holy, but it is that one Man's ooedience: By t.h~ obedience of one (faith he ~ in the fame verfe) many are m~e righte~IH: _So is i_t here. It is not Generation fimply that cloth pollute us ; ne1ther IS lt our 1mmed1ate Parents, thefe are inftru– ments and ways of conveying it, they are Channels through which it runs: but it is that one Man's difobedience, it is the guilt of that AQ that fcizeth upon us all, which makes us Smners. And fo much now for that firfl: Q!!ery. I come now to .a fecond, and that is this : Qllery 2. Why jbo11ld the Guilt of that ACI which itifeels 011r Nat11re, he conveyed to tH by Generatio11, tH the Channel, and by Nat11re, rather than the Sin of other Parentt ? .An f. All Divines do anfwe! that clear!~ thus: That Adam was a publick Per– fan, and he wastherem Chnfl: s Type, wh1ch no other Parent is. Eve was not : for tho fhe was firfl: in the Tranfgreffion, yet it i• not faid, By the difobedience of that o11e Woman, or, By the difobedunce of thofe firft Pare1lts, lPe are madeSinitert; but it is clearly put upon the dijobedie11ce of that one Man; why ? Becaufe he was made a publick Perfon, and fl:ood as a publick Perfoo, which Eve in that refpea: did not. Indeed without her, and her corruption and fall, we had not been finful ; but if you refolve it into its original primary caufe, it is the Sin of that one Man, becaufe, I fay, he was a publick common Perfon, reprefenting all his Pofl:erity, which other Parents are not, which Eve her felf was not : and therefore he was Chrifl:'s Type, which Eve was not. I will not fl:and to fhew you the equity of that, that thofe that fl:and as com– mon Perfons, ~onvey the guilt of their AQ to their Pofl:erity, and thofe they re– prefent, it hath been cleared enough : but rather come to a third Q!!efiion ; for by anf\vering Q!!efl:ions, I hope I fhall clear the thing. Ql1ery 3· Whether was Adam a common Perfon by the Law of NatNre, yea, or no? Whether by the Law of Generation, that's more ? For we mufl: bring it to Birth and Generation at bfl:. A11[. There are three ways by which you may fup~fe one to be a common Perfon : Either, I. By choice ofthe Parties themfelves, as you chufe the Burgeffes in Parlia– ment. It is clear, Adamwas not fa a common Perfon, we never chofe him, OUJ' Wills did never go to make him.one. Or 'elfe, 2. A common Perfon is chofen for us by another: Sa Chrifl:; we did not chufe him to be our Head, but God chofe him for us. But, 3· There is a third way, and that is, that it fhall not only be founded upon a meer ACt of choice, but upon a Law of Nature ; and fo, I take it, Adamwas a common Perfon. He was fo by God's appointment, yet by God's appointment founded upon a Law of Nature. And therefore, both by Generation, as the Channel, and by the Law of Nature, as the Foundation, are we made finful to the end of the World. This I fball endeavour to make clear to you. I take it, it was mixt of both, that is, both that God made him fo, and yet God~s choice of him was not meerly an AQof his Prerogative, or a meer All of his Will ; but it was an Act of his Will, founded upon the Law of Nature, and the Law of Nature required it, and it was necelfary it fhould be fo, and that therefore we come to inherit the guilt of that AQ of his. It is clear, that God did pronounce Adam a common Perfon; for, beforeeyer Eve was made, it isfaid, Gen. 1. 28. God blejfed them, and God faid 1mto thet;o, Be fr11itfnl, and mnltiply, and replenifb the Earth. And in I Cor. 15. 45· it is faid, that the firft Man Adam, he was t~ilo, made, that is, appointed, (as in Heb. 3· it is laid, that Chri/1 WtH faithfiil tn him that made him, ( fo it is in the Greek) to him that appointeJhiJJJ ; fo we tranflate it ) he was made to be a living Smtl, uoto others, namely, as well as in himfelf, as I have elfewhere opened : But yet it was not by a meer Aet of Prerogative, but upon a natural and nece!lary ground that it !hould be fo. * You
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