It is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by the Example of Adam, that Christ's Righteousness is ours.
PErhaps the thing will appear more evident by Example. Let us look upon Adam, and in him let us behold the publick calamity of our Nature: And also let us contemplate Salvation restored again by the second Adam, from the ruine received by the first.
For, if the Doctrine and Force of contra∣ries be the same, according to Philosophers, it will be more easie by that means from the Evil of the one, to judge of the advantages of the other. Then let us compare both Adams with one another, The first Earth∣ly * 1.1 of the Earth, with this second Heavenly from Heaven! Who though in their whole Nature they are most different one from another: Yet by the singular Wisdom of God, it so comes to pass, that there is a wonderful resemblance between things that differ very much and the reason of our Salvation being restored,