The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally…

Homil. xij. The judgment of everlasting death,— fell not only on him, but also on his posterity and children for ever; so that the whole brood of Adams flesh should sustain the self-same fall and punishment which their fore-father by his offence most fully had deserved.

Exp. 16. We have here two things to be considered: (1) That Adam was not only the root of all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, he being the first that God created of that species; but also the representative of mankind, and did as a public person stand for all his posterity in that Covenant of life which God made personally with him; hence that ⟨p. 30⟩common phrase, that we were all in his loins, (i. e.) naturally, as descending from him; and legally, as represented by him. Not but that we were also in the loins of Eve ▪ but that man being first created, and of the more noble Sex, is principally taken notice of both in the Covenant and in the Transgression. For (2dly,) we are here to observe, that all mankind (Christ the Son of God only excepted) did sin in Adam; By one sin entered into the world upon all, for as much as all have sinned. Some explain this by the example of Levi, who is said to pay tithes in Abraham, though Levi was not born some hundred years after Abraham did thus pay tithes: So all Adams posterity (which proceed from him in the ordinary course of nature) may be said as well to sin in Adam, though some of them might not be born some hundreds or thousands of years after him. We know that the bonds and compacts of Parents may reach the Children; else they could not be liable nor capable of enjoying their estates, to pay their debts; and the treason of the Parent doth legally taint the Son, till it please the Prince to take it off. And then further, as the righteousness of Christ the second Adam, and his obedience, is imputed to all that believe; so the disobedience of the first Adam is reckoned to the score of all his posterity, because they were legally in him, and one with him when he sinned.

Exp. 16. We have here two things to be considered: (1) That Adam was not only the root of all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, he being the first that God created of that species; but also the representative of mankind, and did as a publick person stand for all his posterity in that Covenant of life which God made personally with him; hence that