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

In the next place, let us conflict with their Goliath, the chiefest support of their cause, and that is from the Antithesis or Opposition which the Apostle maketh Rom. 5. 15. between the first man Adam, and the second man Jesus Christs, wherein the Excellency and Preeminence is given to Christ, that his grace doth much more abound to life and justification then Adam's sin can to condemnation; Yea the Apostle useth the same note of Universality for the subject of either; sometimes all, and sometimes many, plainly declaring hereby, That as there is by Adam a Catholical enmity and offence that we are plunged into, in respect of God towards us, so there is also as Catholical and Universal Reconciliation and favour with God, that we are instated into, through Christ our Mediator; otherwise it seemeth much to derogate from the honour and glory of Christ, that his favour and love should be more straitened and limited than Adam's efficacy to our condemnation.

In the next place, let us conflict with their Goliah, the chiefest support of their cause, and that is from the Antithesis or Opposition which the Apostle maketh Rom. 5. 15. between the first man Adam, and the second man Jesus Christs, wherein the Excellency and Preheminence is given to Christ, that his grace doth much more abound to life and justication then Adam's sinne can to condemnation; Yea the Apostle useth the same note of Vniversality for the subject of either; sometimes all, and sometimes many, plainly declaring hereby, That as there is by Adam a Catholical enmity and offence that we are plunged into, in respect of God towards us, so there is also as Catholical and Vniversal Reconciliation and favour with God, that we are instated into, through Christ our Mediater; otherwise it seemeth much to derogate from the honour and glory of Christ, that his favour and love should be more straitned and limited than Adam's efficacy to our condemnation.

To this many things are to be considered by way of answer: