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NOw, for as much as all mankind, which by naturall generation was to be propagated from Adam, was in the loynes of Adam; whereupon the commandment joyned also with a commination belonged not to A∣dams person onely, but to all man∣kind:
Therefore we believe with the Apostle, and confesse thata 1.1 in Adam sinning all men sinned; so that the disobedience was not so much pro∣per to him as common to all man∣kind: because his guilt descended upon all his posteritie whether born already, or yet to be born; as the Apostle plainly teacheth, and most firmely proveth by opposingb 1.2 the disobedience of Adam, and the obe∣dience of Christ, the one to the other. For if the obedience of Christ be as well ours by imputation, as it was Christ's own by his proper action; because we are born again of his in∣corruptible seed, and of his spirit: then likewise it followes, that the dis∣obedience of Adam is imputed unto us, and his guilt becomes ours; be∣cause according to our carnall gene∣ration, we are born of his seed, who is the Father of all men.
Rom. 5.19.
ibid.