134 Vide Georg.,. Zea: rnan,con- trove) f. dc ima- gine Dei,c.4. antic .4 8 . john .,6. Rol-n.12.5,16 17,rß. r leer. t 47. 48,49. a ©mxet in.4- damo peccave- runt,gU'a om- nes unu., idle fueruut. Aug. Traxit rectum homo, quia units erat cum illo a quo traxa; it. Aug.ep.23 `T he JinJulneJJe of finne. beauty in his mind,conformitie in his will,fubordination and Iubjedion to his appetites,íetviceableneífe in his bo- dy,peace and happinef e in his whole being. But man, be. ing exaEly fenlible of the excellency or his elate, gave an ealie eare co that first temptation, which laid before him a hope and pro j eft of improving it : and fo belie- ving Satans lye, and embracing a Ihadow, lice fell from the fubflance which before he had,and contra fed the hel lid and horrid image of that Tempter which had thus de- ceived him. Having thus confidered in the general! how the Law may be fain to quicken or revive (inne, by the obligation, irritation ,arid conviClion of it :We will in the next place lookei'hto the lite of thole particular fpecies or rankes of fin which the fpirit in the Commandement doth con- vince men of 'Wherein I (hall iiifil at large onely upon that tin which is the fubjea of this whole Chapter, and (if not folely yet) principally aim'd at by the ApoiUlern my Texr, namely, thoCe evils which lie folded up ii ttr originals concupifcence. Here then firff,the Spirit by the Law intitleth us to A- dams fin, as a derivation from the root to the branches; As poifon is carried from the fountaine to the Ciiterne, as the children of traitors have their blood tainted with their Fathers treafon, and the children of bondilaves are under their parents condition.We wereaal one in Adam, andwith him ; In him legally in regard of the b flipulati- on and covenant between God and him, we were in him parties in that covenant,: had intereft in the mercy, and were liable to the curie "which belonged to the breach of that covenant;and inhim naturally, and therfore unavoi- dablyfubjet to all that bondage and burden which the humane nature contra &ed in his fall. And though there 'Pr4fper cont. cold, c. i 8. Genus humanum inpatente prima velut in radice pt,trxit. Grego. b ñù9i1 egagov "rú jgmov, I4'l ec pes 4° AJ`u.4.c. ChryCoft. apud Aug. vid. Ge- rani. Voff. Hi(ior.Pelag.l.2part. 1.6. 2, bee
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