Whether death propagated vnto all men from the first, be punishment of sinne to the Saints. CHAP. 3.
•…•…ere's a question not to be omitted: whether the first death bee good to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ood? If it be so, how can it be the punishment of sinne? for had not our 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sinned, they had neuer tasted it: how then can it bee good to the vp∣•…•… cannot happen but vnto offenders? and if it happen but vnto offenders 〈◊〉〈◊〉 not be good, for it should not be at all vnto the vpright: for why should * 1.1 〈◊〉〈◊〉 punishment that haue no guilt? Wee must confesse then, that had not 〈◊〉〈◊〉 parents sinned, they had not dyed: but sinning; the punishment of death •…•…cted vpon them and all their posteritie: for they should not produce 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ng but what them-selues were, and the greatnesse of their crime depraued 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ture: so that that which was penall in the first mans offending, was made 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in the birth of all the rest: for they came not of man, as man came of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉. The dust was mans materiall: but man is mans parent. That which is earth is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 flesh, though flesh be made of earth: but that which man the father is, man the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is also. For all man-kinde was in the first man, to bee deriued from him by the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, when this couple receiued their sentence of condemnation. And that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 man was made, not in his creation, but in his fall and condemnation, that * 1.2 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…got, in respect (I meane) of sinne, and death. For his sinne (a) was not cause of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 weaknesse in infancie, or whitenesse of body, as we see in infants: those God would haue as the originall of the yonglings, whose parents he had cast downe to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 mortality, as it is written: Man was in honor and vnderstood not but became 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the beasts that perish, vnlesse that infants bee weaker in motion and appetite 〈◊〉〈◊〉 all other creatures, to shew mans mounting excellence aboue them all, com∣•…•…le to a shaft that flieth the stronger when it is drawne farthest back in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Therefore mans presumption and iust sentence, adiudged him not to those •…•…lities of nature: but his nature was depraued vnto the admission of con∣•…•…entiall in-obedience in his members against his will: & thereby was bound