A short and sure way to grace and salvation being a necessary and profitable tract, upon three fundamental principles of Christian religion ... : how man was at first created, how he is now corrupted, how he may be again restored : together with the conditions of the covenant of grace, and to whom the promises of the Gospel belong ... / by R. Younge ...

Sect. IX.

And the reason is, Our First Parents being the root of all man-kind; and instead of all their posterrity before they had issue: And the covenant being made with them as publick persons; not for themselves onely, but for their Posterity; who were to stand, or fall with them: they being left to the free∣dome of their own wills, in transgressing the commandment of God by eat∣ting the forbidden fruit, through the temtation of Satan: have made us, and all man-kind descending from them by ordinary generation, as guilty of their sin, as any heir is liable to his Fathers debt. Their act being ours; as the act of a Knight, or Burgess in the Parlament House, is the act of the whole County, in whose name, and room they sit, and whom they represent: by which means our Nature is so corrupted, that we are utterly indisposed and made oppo∣site, unto all that is spiritually good, and wholly inclined to all evill, and that continually: and have also lost our communion with God, incurred his dis∣pleasure and curse; so as we are justly liable to all punishments, both in this life, and in the life to come.

Now for the fuller confirming and amplifying of what hath been said, tou∣ching O••iginal sin; take onely these ensuing Scrirptures, and Aphorisms, with∣out any needlesse connexion; that I may be so much the briefer.