A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

What this Image is, you have heard already at large, our main work is to examine, How we come to be made partakers of it? Yet it is good summarily to say something of this Image of Adams we all bear about with us. And

WHat this Image is, you have heard already at large, our main work is to examine, How we come to be made partakers of it? Yet it is good summarily to say something of this Image of Adams we all bear about with us. And

First, Man who was not only made after the Image of God, Gen. 1. 26. but is said absolutely to be the Image of God, 1. Cor. 11. 7. by his apostasy became not only like the beasts that perish, but also like the Devils that are damned. Insomuch that now this glorious Image of God being defaced: If you ask, Whose Image and Superscription he beareth? We answer of corrupted sinful and mortal Adam, an Image we are to be ashamed of, and to mourn under all the days of our life; Who can look upon man, but may behold sin and misery, folly and mortality? Now this Image of the first Adam comprehended the things of the soul and the body. In the body we have pains, diseases, and a necessity, of death at last; In the soul there is horrible blackness and confusion upon it, that as devils are represented in the most horrid and black manner that can be, such things are our souls now become. Although therefore the Text speaketh of Adam's Image in the bodily part, that we are thereby corruptible and mortal, and so need a Resurrection to make us happy, yet I shall chiefly speak of this Image in the soul, as it is infected and polluted with sin from him. This is the Image we bear, but there is exceeding great comfort to the godly, that they being in Christ the second Adam, they shall be made perfectly conformable to him, they shall bear ⟨p. 184⟩that heavenly Image, and at last shall have no cause to complain, that their souls are bowed down with sinful, earthly and heavy affections, weighing us down to the ground; were it not for hope of this at our Resurrection, the Doctrine about Adam's fall, and our hurt thereby would utterly discourage us; but there is a second Adam as well as a first, if he had been the first and last too, that no Adam would have answered him in the way of righteousness and life, as he was in the way of sin and death; nothing but horror and damnation could have taken hold of us; Let us be more deeply affected with the first Adam, and so shall we come more highly to prize and esteem the second Adam.