A medium betwixt two extremes wherein it is proved that the whole first Adam…

1. A particular Act which he did,¹ namely the breaking the Law of the first Covenant. 2. The legal Guilt that flowed from that Act both upon his own Person, and upon all his Posterity by Imputation. 3. That Natural pravity and corruption of our whole Nature in Soul and Body; the whole Man being defiled. And from hence comes Wrath and Condemnation upon all Men.

1. 1Caryl on ob, chap. 25. p. 706.

Now, Brethren, let me here add one thing to your consideration, viz. tho Adam fell by this Sin in his own Person under Condemnation (as well as we in him) yet afterwards when he believed and received by Faith the free promise of God, in the Seed of the Woman, he came into a Justified State: Adam no doubt was an Elect Person, the promise of Christ being directly made to him (who was also a Figure of him that was to come.¹) But now it would follow that if the Elect were never under the Sentence of Wrath and Condemnation, then Adam notwithstanding what I have said, was not; and if Adam was not in his own Person under it for his first Sin, then none of his Seed or Posterity were. But how absurd and contrary such a Notion is to Truth, I leave to all Mens Consideration.

1. 1Rom. 5.14.

¹2ly. As all Men are under Sin and Guilt by Original Transgression, so they are also by their own actual Sins: the Wages of Sin is Death, yea, eternal Death; for there is no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God.