A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

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.

Secondly, The Threatening annexed to the Covenant of Works was Death. In the Day thou Eatest thereof, says God, thou shalt surely Die, Gen. 2.17. Now there is a Threefold Death, that by the violation of this Command Man was subject unto: A Temporal Death, onsisting in the Miseries of this Life, and at last a separation of the Soul from the Body. An Eternal Death, consisting in ⟨p. 222⟩the everlasting separation of the Soul from God; and a Spiritual Death, consisting in the loss and separation of God's Image from the Soul: And upon Adam's Sin this Threefold Death was Threatened namely Temporal, Spiritual, and Eternal. Of these Three, the Spiritual Death was presently inflicted upon Man's Fall, consisting in the separation of the Image of God from the Soul; Man wa immediately deprived of that Holiness and perfect Righteousness wherein the Image of God did consist.