in the Ep f les of St. Paul, &c. 467 felves to become his Children by our obedience unto him; he having obtained eternal life for himfelf by his obedience unto God, we are made partakers of the benefits thereof. This is the fubftance of his long Difputation on this fubjea, De servator. lib. 4. cap. 6. But this is not to expound the words of the Apottle, but exprefly to contradiél them, as we thall fee in the infuing confideration of them. I intend not an Expofition of the whole dilcourfe of the Apotlle, but only of thole paffages in it, which evi- dently declare the way and manner of our Juftification before God. A comparifon is here propofed and purfued between the Firft Adam, by whom fin was brought into the World; and the Second Adam, by whom it is taken away. And a corn- parifon it is ,1,«ß14t,, of things contrary, wherein there is a fimilitude in Come things, and a difïimilitude in others, both forts illuftrating the truth declared in it. The general Propofition of it is contained in Vera 2. As by one Manfan en- tred into the World, and death by fan ; and fo death paffed on all Men, for that all havefanned. The entrance of fin and punifhment into the World, was by one Man ; and that by one fin as he afterward declares. Yet were they not confined unto the perfon of that one Man, but belonged equally un- to all. This the A poftle expreffeth inverting the order of the Effect and Caule. In the entrance of it, he firft mentions the caufe or fin, and then the effect or punifhment. By one Man fn entred into the World, and Death by fin : But in the Ap- plication of it unto all Men, he expreffeth firft the e e , and then the caufe ; Death palled on all Men, for that all had finned. Death on the firft entrance of fin, paflèd on all; that is, all Men became liable and obnoxious unto it, as the punithment due to fin. All Men that ever were, are, or thall be, were not then exiftent in their own perlons. But yet were they all of them, then, upon the firft entrance of Ooo "a fine,
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