The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

A comparison is here proposed and pursued between the First Adam, by whom sin was brought into the World; and the Second Adam, by whom it is taken away. And a comparison it is [Greek or Hebrew], of things contrary, wherein there is a similitude in some things, and a dissimilitude in others, both sorts illustrating the truth declared in it. The general Proposition of it is contained in Ver. 12. As by one Man sin entered into the World, and death by sin; and so death passed on all Men, for that all have sinned. The entrance of sin and punishment into the World, was by one Man; and that by one sin as he afterward declares. Yet were they not confined unto the person of that one Man, but belonged equally unto all. This the Apostle expresseth inverting the order of the Effect and Cause. In the entrance of it, he first mentions the cause or sin, and then the effect or punishment, By one Man sin entered into the World, and Death by sin: But in the Application of it unto all Men, he expresseth first the effect, and then the cause; Death passed on all Men, for that all had sinned. Death on the first entrance of sin, passed on all; that is, all Men became liable and obnoxious unto it, as the punishment due to sin. All Men that ever were, are, or shall be, were not then existent in their own persons. But yet were they all of them, then, upon the first entrance of ⟨p. 468⟩sin, made subject to death, or liable unto punishment. They were so by virtue of Divine Constitution upon their federal existence in the one Man that sinned. And actually they became obnoxious in their own persons unto the sentence of it, upon their first natural existence being born children of wrath.

A comparison is here proposed and pursued between the First Adam, by whom sin was brought into the World; and the Second Adam, by whom it is taken away. And a comparison it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, of things contrary, wherein there is a similitude in some things, and a dissimilitude in others, both sorts illustrating the truth declared in it. The general Proposition of it is contained in Ver. 12. As by one Man sin entred into the World, and death by sin; and so death passed on all Men, for that all have sinned. The entrance of sin and punishment into the World, was by one Man; and that by one sin as he afterward declares. Yet were they not confined unto the person of that one Man, but belonged equally unto all. This the Apostle expresseth inverting the order of the Effect and Cause. In the entrance of it, he first mentions the cause or sin, and then the effect or punishment, By one Man sin entred into the World, and Death by sin: But in the Application of it unto all Men, he expresseth first the effect, and then the cause; Death passed on all Men, for that all had sinned. Death on the first entrance of sin, passed on all; that is, all Men became liable and obnoxious unto it, as the punishment due to sin. All Men that ever were, are, or shall be, were not then existent in their own persons. But yet were they all of them, then, upon the first entrance of