The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

2. He was the moral Principle of Mankind. In the first Treaty between God and Man, Adam was considered not as a single person, but as caput gentis, and contracted for all his descendants by ordinary generation. His Person was the Fountain of theirs, and his Will the representative of theirs. From hence his vast Progeny became a party in the Covenant, and had a title to the benefits contained in it, upon his Obedience, and was liable to the Curse upon his violation of it. Upon this ground the Apostle institutes a parallel between Adam and Christ. That as by one Mans disobedience many were made sinners; ¹so by the obedience of One, many were made righteous. As Christ in his Death on the Cross did not suffer as a private person, but as a surety and sponsor representing the whole Church, according to the testimony of Scripture, If one died for all, then all were dead: ²so the first Adam who was the figure of him that was to come, ³in his Disobedience was esteemed a public Person, representing the whole race of Mankind; and by a just Law it was not restrained to himself, but is the Sin of the common nature. Adam broke the first link in the chain whereby Mankind was united to God, and all the other parts which depended upon it, are necessarily separated from him. From hence the Scripture saith,⁴ that by Nature we are Children of wrath, that ⟨p. 39⟩is, liable to punishment, and that hath relation to guilt.

2. He was the moral Principle of Mankind. In the first Treaty between God and Man, Adam was consider'd not as a single person, but as caput gentis, and contracted for all his desccndants by ordinary generation. His Person was the Fountain of theirs, and his Will the representative of theirs. From hence his vast Progeny became a party in the Covenant, and had a title to the benefits contain'd in it, upon his Obedience, and was liable to the Curse upon his violation of it. Upon this ground the Apostle institutes a parallel between Adam and Christ. That as by one Mans disobedience many were made sinners;