The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. /…

The Doctrine you see is nothing else, but the very words of the Text explained; For the proof of it, you may please to consider that name that is given to Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 15 47. The first man is of the earth, earthy; The second man is the Lord from heaven. Christ here is called the second man, what is the reason of it? Because there is a proportion between Christ and the first Adam, only it is a proportion of unlikeness, and contrariety, not a proportion of likeness and agreement; Christ is just contrary to the first man, how is that? The first man did bring all mankind under sin, and guilt and punishment; Christ he doth bring all believers, all mankind that do believe in him, he bringeth them all from under sin, from under guilt, from under punishment: Thus there is a likeness between Christ and Adam, only by way of contrariety, Christ undoing what Adam did; Christ bringing our of all that misery into which Adam brought us: therefore Christ is called the Second Man, the first man undid us all, the Second hath made us all that are believers; the first man hath run us into debt, the Second hath redeemed us ⟨p. 25⟩from all that misery into which the first hath plunged us.

The Doctrine you see is nothing else, but the very words of the Text explained; For the proof of it, you may please to consider that name that is given to Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 15 47. The first man is of the earth, earthie; The second man is the Lord from heaven. Christ here is called the second man, what is the reason of it? Because there is a proportion between Christ and the first Adam, onely it is a proportion of unlikenesse, and contrarietie, not a proportion of likeness and agrement; Christ is just contrary to the first man, how is that? The first man did bring all mankind under sin, and guilt and punishment; Christ he doth bring all beleevers, all mankind that doe beleeve in him, he bringeth them all from under sin, from under guilt, from under punishment: Thus there is a likeness between Christ and Adam, onely by way of contrarietie, Christ undoing what Adam did; Christ bringing our of all that miserie into which Adam brought us: therefore Christ is called the Second Man, the first man undid us all, the Second hath made us all that are beleevers; the first man hath run us into debt, the Second hath redeemed us