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MAns misery by the sinne of Adam, was death, In dying thou shalt dye; or thou shalt dye the death, Gen. 2.17. Now under the name of Death, the Scriptures comprehend divers things: A spirituall death in sin; so are all Naturall men dead in trespasses and sins, subject to externall mise∣ries, and deadly plagues, Exod. 10.17. Ex∣ternall afflictions upon the body, so Paul,
2 Cor. 1.23. the dissolution of mans exter∣nall and naturall life, Gen. 35.18. Psal. 146.4. The perdition of body and soule for e∣ver: All which miseries come in by the sin of Adam. As the second Adam was the way letting in all good to mankind; so was the first Adam the way or flood-gate letting in all miseries upon soul and body.
Object. Some will object and say, But how could Adam lose a spirituall life, and so come under a spirituall death? seeing he never had a spirituall life in God; how could he lose that which he never had?
Answ. Although Adam had never a spirituall life in God, yet he had a spiritu∣all subsisting given him of God, free from sin; and so, capable of defilement: For the truth is, it is the internall part of man that sins, the forme or body of man is acted by the guiding of the internall part; so that Adam now dies in his spirit, he hath nei∣ther power, wisdome, nor will to doe that which is well-pleasing to the Lord; he hath not onely lost that wisdome, will, and pow∣er of acting in the first Adam; but likewise of beleeving, and so of applying that salva∣tion tendered in the second Adam, untill he spiritually and powerfully draw up the soul
unto himselfe, John 6.44. and so makes him not onely partaker of all that compleat righteousnesse wrought for him; but like∣wise fulfils all righteousnesse in him, Rom. 8.4. Or else mans misery may be conside∣red under these three heads: 1. A condi∣tion of death, as you have heard, In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt dye the death; that is death internall, and death externall, and death eternall; without a meanes, or a remedy preventing it. 2. A condition of en∣mity, I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; & all unbeleevers, which so live & remain, are in a state of enmity, God hath not declared himselfe any other unto them; and their nature is still at enmi••y with God. 3. A condition of insufficiency to help them∣selves: Adam was notable to help himself, all that he could doe, was to hide himselfe, he could not deliver himself out of this con∣dition: neither are all the sons and daugh∣ters of Adam able to help one soule out of this condition, if God help not. Therefore this should teach soules made alive by Christ, to admire mercy, and to cry Grace, Grace, unto the whole work of God, both in them, and for them.