PROOFE 8.
The restauration wrought by Christ in his owne body for mankinde, is set forth in Scripture to be as large and full for all men, and of as much force as the fall of the fall of the first Adam by & in himself for all men: in which respect the first Adam is said to have been a figure of Christ the second Adam, Rom 3. 22, 23, 24. & 5. 12, 14, 18. 1 Cor. 15. 21, 22, 45, 46, 47. As is before shewne, Chap. 8.
It is most true that Christ and Adam are compared together, in respect of the righteousnesse of the one, communicated to them that are his, and the disobedience and transgression of the other, in like manner communicated to all them that are of him in some of the places here mentioned: as Rom. 5 12. 18. but evidently the comparison is not instituted between the righteousnesse of Christ, and the disobedience of Adam, extensively in respect of the object, but intensively in respect of the efficacy of the one and the other; the Apostle asserting the effectualnesse of the righteousnesse of Christ unto justification, to answer the prevalency of the sinne of Adam unto condemnation; that even as the transgression of A∣dam brought a guilt of condemnation upon all them that are his naturall seed; so the righteousnesse of Christ, procured the free gift of grace unto justification, towards all them that are his, his spirituall seed, that were the children given unto him of his Fa∣ther. 2ly. 1 Cor. 15. 22, 23. speaketh of the resurrection from the dead, and that onely of Believers; for though he mentions them as all, Verse 22. In Christ all shall be made alive; yet Verse 23. hee plainly interprets those all to be all that are Christs; not but that the other dead shall rise also, but that it is a resurrection to glory by vertue of the resurrection of Christ, which the Apostle here treats of, which certainly all shall not have. 3. The con parison between Christ and Adam, verse 45. to speake nothing of the va∣rious