A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Why now, Secondly, This voluntary inclination of Adam to Sin, hath ever since by a dreadful, yet righteous Judgment of God, brought upon all his Posterity a natural and necessary inclination unto Sin; so that now, either whatever they do is Sin, or there is Sin in whatever they do. Now that we may clearly apprehend how Adam's first Sin and Provocation committed so many Thousand Years ago, causes such strong propensions to Sin in all his Posterity, you must observe these following particulars.

Why now, Secondly, This voluntary inclination of Adam to Sin, hath ever since by a dreadful, yet righteous Judgmen of God, brought upon all his Posterity a natural and necessary inclination unto Sin; so that now, either whatever they do is Sin, or there is Sin in whatever they do. Now that we may clearly apprehend how Adam's first Sin and Provocation committed so many Thousand Years ago, causes such strong propensions to Sin in all his Posterity, you must observe these following particulars.

First, Consider this, that we and all Mankind were in Adam, not only as in our common Parent, from whom we received our Being, but as in our Common Head, Surety, and Representative, from whom we were to receive either our well or our ill Being; he was the Head of the Covenant, both he and we were Parties in the Covenant, he obeying, we obeyed, and he sinning, we transgressed; what he did as in this public capacity, was not alone his Personal Act, but it was ours also. Now what Right Adam had to Indent for his Posterity, and to oblige them to the Terms of the Covenant, I have long since opened to you on another occasion, and I shall therefore pass it by now.

First, Consider this, that we and all Mankind were in Adam, not only as in our common Parent, from whom we received our Being, but as in our Common Head, Surety, and Representative, from whom we were to receive either our well or our ill Being; he was the Head of the Covenant, both he and we were Parties in the Covenant, he obeying, we obeyed, and he sinning, we transgressed; what he did as in this publick capacity, was not alone his Personal Act, but it was ours also. Now what Right Adam had to Indent for his Posterity, and to oblige them to the Terms of the Covenant, I have long since opened to you on another occasion, and I shall therefore pass it by now.