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As Adam was the first man that God created, so he was the first father and progenitor of all other men, who are every one born in his image as they come into the world of nature, and breathe the vital air. Just so, from Jesus Christ, the everlasting Father, all who come into the world of grace derive their spiritual being; his image they bear, — 1 Cor. xv. 49. and from him “the whole family in heaven and in earth is named.” — Eph, iii. 15. Though here also there is a considerable disparity betwixt the earthly man and the heavenly Adam. The first man is not the immediate, but the remote father our flesh; — for “one generation goes, and another comes:” but Jesus Christ is the immediate Father of all his saints, who in every age receive from him the light of life, as the silver moon, and all the sparkling stars, draw light immediately from the sun, the fountain of the day.
“The first Adam,” as Moses relates, ” was made a living soul,” — 1 Cor. xv. 45. that he might convey a natural life to them who had not received it; but “the second Adam,” as the apostle declares, “was made a quickening spirit,” to impart a spiritual life to them who had lost it, and were dead in trespasses and sins: and at the resurrection of the just to quicken also their mortal bodies. For “as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive.”
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“The first Adam,” as Moses relates, ” was made a living soul,” — 1 Cor. xv. 45. that he might convey a natural life to them who had not received it; but “the second Adam,” as the apostle declares, “was made a quickening spirit,” to impart a spiritual life to them who had lost it, and were dead in trespasses and sins: and at the resurrection of the just to quicken also their mortal bodies. For “as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive.”
For the reference, see:
https://reformedcovenanter.wordpres...s-the-second-adam-and-the-everlasting-father/
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