The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…

The manner of this propagation is taken up and understood, 1. To stand in imputation, because that first transgression was held as the transgression of the whole nature of mankind: For as in the receiving of the benefits and endowments that belonged to all mankind, Adam bore the place and person of all men; so also it was but right and reason, that he should maintain their place, either in their conservation by obedience, or loss by disobedience, until they were capable of standing to, or falling from their primitive condition in their own persons. Herein he was as it were the Surety of all mankind, so that what he did in this business, was to be held valid by all, as done in their names. 2. The second degree of this Propagation stands in the derivation, or traduction of that corruption, which by our first transgression seized upon the person of Adam himself. This corruption is usually called the languishing of nature, the seed or tinder of sin, the law of our members, the law of the flesh, lust and sin that dwells in us; but most usually original sin, because it cleaves unto us even from our first original, and is some way natural unto us, to wit, as in our nature corrupted; also it is the original of all other sins: for all actual sins ⟨p. 21⟩flow from this as from their fountain.

The manner of this propagation is taken up and understood, 1. To stand in imputation, because that first transgression was held as the transgression of the whole nature of mankinde: For as in the receiving of the benefits and endowments that belonged to all mankinde, Adam bore the place and person of all men; so also it was but right and reason, that he should maintain their place, either in their conservation by obedience, or losse by disobedience, untill they were capable of standing to, or falling from their primitive condition in their own persons. Herein he was as it were the Surety of all mankinde, so that what he did in this businesse, was to be held valid by all, as done in their names. 2. The second degree of this Propagation stands in the derivation, or traduction of that corruption, which by our first transgression seised upon the person of Adam himself. This corruption is usually called the languishing of nature, the seed or tinder of sin, the law of our members, the law of the flesh, lust and sin that dwels in us; but most usually originall sin, because it cleaves unto us even from our first original, and is some way natural unto us, to wit, as in our nature corrupted; also it is the original of all other sins: for all actuall sins