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Some abuse the similitude of a Head and Members; whereas Natural Head and Members make one Natural Body; but so do not Christ and Believers: And a Political Head and Members are distinct persons, and one is not guiltless, righteous, wise or good, because the other is so. But of this more before, and elsewhere. Some here abuse the similitude of Christs being the second Adam, which you here (though not to this Error) insist upon. And then they feign us, 1. To have bee• otherwise in Adam than we were; 2. And his sin to be otherwise imputed to us than it was; And 3. The similitude to extend further than it doth.

Some abuse the similitude of a Head and Members; whereas Natural Head and Members make one Natural Body; but so do not Christ and Believers: And a Political Head and Members are distinct persons, and one is not guiltless, righteous, wise or good, because the other is so. But of this more before, and elsewhere. Some here abuse the similitude of Christs being the second Adam, which you here (though not to this Errour) insist upon. And then they feign us, 1. To have bee• otherwise in Adam than we were; 2. And his sin to be otherwise imputed to us than it was; And 3. The similitude to extend further than it doth.

I. They feign us to have been Personally in Adam, whenas we were but seminally in him, and personally from him. 2. They feign us to have been in him by a certain Covenant, more than we were by Natural In-existence: And that his sin was arbitrarily by God through that Covenant, imputed to us further than we were guilty of it by any natural In-being or derivation: As if God made all men sinners by his arbitrary imputation of that to them, which in their natures they were not really guilty of: And as if our guilt of Adams sin, were just of the same sort as his; yea, and our guilt and his guilt were individual accidents of the same individual persons. But this (which Dr. Twice oft confuteth in most of his Books) I have so largely and lately cleared in my published Disputations of Original sin, that you shall excuse me for not reciting it here.