This is plain from Hebrews 7:26. He was separated from sinners, and
IV. Conclude with some inferences.
I. I am to show what sin of Adam's it was that they who sinned and fell with him, sinned and fell in. It was his first sin, the eating of the forbidden fruit. That sin is also their sin. This was the sin that broke the covenant of works. Other sins of Adam are not imputed to them, more than those of any other private persons. For he was a head only of obedience, not of suffering. So then, Adam quickly betaking himself to the covenant of grace, and placing himself under another head as a private man, ceased to be the head in the covenant of works. Adam had all his children in one ship to carry them to Immanuel's land; by his negligence he dashed the ship on a rock, and broke it all in pieces; and so he and his lay foundering in a sea of guilt: Jesus Christ lets out the second covenant as a rope to draw them to the shore. Adam for himself lays hold onto, while others hold by the broken boards of the ship, till they be by the power of grace enabled to quit them too, as he was.
II. I proceed to show who they were that sinned and fell in Adam. They were all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation. So,
1. Christ is excepted. Adam's sin was not imputed to the man Christ. This is plain from Hebrews 7:26. He was separated from sinners, and was not infected with the plague whereof he was to be the cleanser. And so Christ comes not in under Adam as head, but, as in the text, is opposed to Adam as another head.
Christ was indeed a Son of Adam, as appears from his genealogy brought up to Adam, (Luke 3). And it was necessary he should be so, that he might be our near kinsman, and that the same nature that sinned might suffer. But he came not of him by ordinary generation: the extraordinariness of his descent lay in that he was born of a