The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

If the actual sin of Adam was so imputed unto all his posterity, as to be accounted their own sin unto condemnation, then is the actual obedience of Christ, the Second Adam imputed unto all his Spiritual Seed, that is, unto all Believers unto Justification. I shall not here further press this Argument, because the ground of it will occur unto us afterwards.

The two next Verses containing an Objection and an Answer returned unto them, wherein we have no immediate concernment, I shall pass by.

Vers. 15, 16. The Apostle proceeds to explain his Comparison in those things, wherein there is a dissimilitude between the comparates.

The opposition is between [Greek or Hebrew] on the one hand, and [Greek or Hebrew] on the other; between which, a dissimilitude is asserted, not as unto their opposite effects of Death and Life, but only as unto the degrees of their efficacy, with respect unto those effects, [Greek or Hebrew], the offence, the fall, the sin, the transgression; that is, [Greek or Hebrew], the disobedience of one, Ver. 19. Hence the first sin of Adam, is generally called the fall, [Greek or Hebrew]. That which is opposed hereunto, is [Greek or Hebrew]; Donum, Donum gratuitum; Beneficium, id quod Deus gratificatur; that is, [Greek or Hebrew], as it is immediately explained. The grace of God, and the free gift by grace, through Jesus Christ. Wherefore, although this word, in the next verse, doth precisely signify the Righteousness of Christ, yet here it comprehends all the causes of our Justification, in opposition unto the fall of Adam, and the entrance of sin thereby.