A SRRMdN On EPHEs. 5· 30,31,32: 30: For we are .YUembm of his 'Body, :of his Flefh, and of /,if 'Boms. 3 1. For this caufe JhaOaMa1Jleaw his Father and .YUotber, and {hall he joined unto his Wtfe, and they two {hall be 011e Flefh. . 3 1. This is agreat Myftery, but I Jpeak. concerni11g Orift and the Cbtlrch. T . He Doll:rirteoftheGofpel, hathbeen the Subjell: which I have deligned to h~ndJe. And in the fir£1: place to fhcw that it was God's int.ention that the Story of.Adant (which you read ofin the beginning ofhis Book, in the Volumn of his Book, as he faith, Heb. 3· in the beginning ofGeneji1.) fhould hold forth a Shadow and Type ofthe moO: fundamental Truths ofthe Gof– pel. So that as it was [aid ofold, that the whole Creation was but Dell1 explma. tll1, [o we may truly fay that the Story ofAdam, is nothing elfe but Cf.rijiTH ex– planatTHChri£1: explained. Firft, I might fhew that in Adam's Creation, in the Unioq of h!s Soul to . his Body, the dwelling of a reafonable Soul in aBody ofClay, t~ere was a Shadow: of the dwelling ofthe Divine Nature in the Human f\lature ofChri£1:, out of I Cor. I 5· 44· 45· where the ApoO:Ie quotes the vc:ry words; : wheri Adant was made and created, to bea Typeor a fore-running Prophecy ofour Lord and S•– 'Viour Jefus Chri£1:. It's true faith he, the firft MAn Adani WM made a living So~tf; the fecond Adam, typified.out hereby, is a quicA_ning Spirit. Secondly, Take the Condition ofAdam's Soul, as it had the Image ofGod in it, either for Knowledg, or elfe for Holinefs, it fell infinitely fhort ofthe State ofBe– lievers under the Gofpel, if their Holinefs were made compleat as his was. The Image ofGod, and the Knowledg of God inAdamwas natural, it was but in ;t natural way, fuited to theNature of Man as he is reafonable, and as he is Man, it wasmeerly but what was due to Cuch a Creature, if God would make him fuch. But the Knowledg ofGod, and the Image ofGod that follows thereupon under the Goipel, is every way fupernatural, fo as Eye hath not feen, nor hath Ear heard, ( as the ApoO:Je fpeaksin I Cor. 2.) rior ( as it is quoted out of lfo. 64. )' Man from the beginning ofthe World, no not evenAdamhimlelf, bath known the thing1 that thort haft prepared (under the Gofpel) for them that love tbee. How it fell fhort, I cannot now O:and to declare. Ada11t was made according to the Image ofGod; the Image ofGod in him was but aShadow of that Image of God, which fhints in Chr1fi the fecond Ada,z, and which he 'O:ampeth upon the Hearts ofBelievers, they being tranOoted and trans· formed into his Image. . As .ddam in his Creatiort Was a Type of Chri£1: and his Church, fo when God . taidj (Jen. 1.26. Let ll1 ma/,§ Man after OHr Image, after oiJr Li/,§ncjs (andhe fpeaks ·' H 2 this
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