Of the Creatures, and the Condition ~ befdes this, it wasintended as much, yea more , to be a Type, and a Figure BooK If, of Chril! and hisWorld which wM to come ( as the Phrafe is, Hr6,2.1 5.) and of ~Chrifl hcre,Rom. 5· '4· that he was to come, and in comparifon tliereof, A· · dam was but as a Shadow to the Body of th isSun. And in the fecond Place, forthe confirmation of thatlatter part of this A[: ferrion, ( or rather the Appendix unto it) that Chrifl was appointed a Root to his Elect, before, or rather, without refpect had \lOCO the FaH : I argue out 'of this Place thus, and ask wherein it was, that Adamwas a Type of Chnft to come ? Why (as it is plain by the Context) in his conveying 'Difobeditllct; SoVer(. n, 1 >• '4· !11 htm all Men ji1med ; and (o .fin and lJe<Jih €ame upon nil : He thews how in a way of Antithe lis or oppo(rtion (yet bearing a likenefs and refemblance ) he Typified out Chrifl in his Obedience, (So Ptrf. 17, 18 1 g. ) which comes upon all his Elect by the like imputation; andThey are mad; R1ghuous by that One MmH 06edience , as Sinntrs by that One Mans 'Difo. hdimce. Now if we examin the Groun~ why all finned in him, and why Ius Difobedtence made alllinners; 1t was 10 that he was a Pubhck Perfon, re– prefcnting all Mankind,a•Chri!l alfo was. And fo the mainGround oftheApofiles comparing them lies in this , That both ofthem, as Publici( PerfoAs, were Two Koots and Principles, and fo A dam the Type ofhim, who was alfo·( fays he ) tq come and be a Common H<ad and R.oot, as Adamwas. Now I ask when did A· d,m, become a C01n.moo Perfon firfl~whar,not untill the moment of his finning? Surely yes;he was luch before,evenm the Stateoflnnoceney:For he had not in Juflice been a Publick Perfon in linning,ifhe had not firfl been fuch in flanding; He had notbeen fuch for evil, if he had not firll been fuch for good. And fo he was therefore a publick Perfon in !inning, beca'ufe formerly in lnnoceny he had been fo confidered by,God : So as, in God's firll Decree to Create him, he mull needs have ordained him withal to bea common Perfoo : And therefore at the infiant before, or at the time when God made Adam, he fays (Gm. r. 26.) Let zu make M an (it is in the Hebrew [Adam] according to our Image. In which words [Adam] or [Man J in the fingular Number, is put for all Man· ki11d; even as in that Promife, Gatat. >· 16. it was obferved by the Apoflle, that he had fa id, 11ot unto [Suds] as many , apart, of tlremfelves, but to [.Seed J asto One, a publick Perfon, for all the reil; which Seed was Chri(\, as including all the Elect in him, Now fa he fays (in that place of Ge11e(is) not [Mm] os {peaking of them feverally, in their own Perfons; but [Man J orrather [Adam J that One, firfl Mmt, as the R.oot of All ; in whom, as in a publici< perfon, All were created, And therefore, that fo he might be under· 1\ood in that Speccb, he adds (in the next words following ) the Plura·l Num· ber, faying, LAnd tetlhem fu6due, f!ic.] as fpeaking of All his Poflericy con– lidered in him. Thus therefore God looks at him in his Decree of Creation. Now from this Rom. 5'· it is evident , that when he became to be a publick Perfon, then he began alfo to be aType; for he was aType, as he was apub· lick Perfon, and a Root of Mankind; that isthe ground of it, and lies not in his !inning only: For he had not been a Type in finning, if he had not firft been a Publick Perfon, in refpect of good and holy Actions, to have conveyed the benefit of them, as well as of his fin, to covey the evil of it : And fo before this his Fall, he was a Type of Chrifi tp come, as a R.oot to his Elect, to con· vey fome benefit to them, namely, the Glory in Heaven, and this, before the conlideration of Adam'sFall, as will afterwards appear out of another Scrip· ture. ·cHAP.
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