In further considering this most instructive subject, I would take occasion to notice our fall and recovery, in the two heads; Adam, the sinful head and representative of all mankind; and the adorable Jesus, the elect head of his dear people. It is a solemn and a glorious truth, that as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. Or, as the learned say it is literally in the Greek, All in Adam die; all in Christ shall be made alive. Here are the two heads, and no more—the one represents all mankind—the second Adam, all his children given to him, loved, redeemed, and saved by him. Much has been said and written on the subject of the Fall of Man: great indeed was that Fall, and dreadful has been the consequences of it. All the miseries in earth and hell are the consequences of it. Alas! how deeply fallen is man into the mire of corruption, sin, and folly; and into the waters of deep affliction—sunk, as iron cast or dropped into the waters of Jordan, which naturally gravitates to its own centre. Our nature was sunk so deep, that it was apparently lost, and so incapacitated, that it has no more power to come up out of it, than iron has to swim of itself, independent of a miracle—covered over, sunk in earth, yea, the Apostle asserts, it is earthly, sensual, and devilish; having fallen from wisdom, and become foolish; from righteousness, and become a criminal; from holiness, and become impure; and from happy freedom, to awful bondage. The powers of the soul, all the noble talents that were only lent; these are awfully depraved, yea, so evil, that I am bold to assert, no man can believe he is as vile as the Bible declares him, till he is put in the possession of the faith of God’s elect. There requires as much divine power, to credit the state of man, as to believe in the salvation of the soul. The same faith the holy Spirit gives to see Jesus, believe in Jesus, and rest on Jesus, is required to believe the desperate depravity of the human heart. The same light in which I see the new man, I see the old; in the same teaching I see truth, I discover the aboundings of error, and by the same anointing I behold my standing in the second Adam, I see my fall in the first. But it is well for the people of God, who are acquainted with their fallen natures, that the holy Spirit leads them to see the glorious remedy in the gospel; that as the Law enters, sin being discovered, weakness felt, corruption a burden, misery groaned under, and the awful consequences deplored. The Gospel is so highly esteemed by such persons, and none know the value of the Gospel, but those who feel their sins, and see them in the light of the Law, as deserving the wrath of a holy God; and finding the utter impossibility of keeping the Law, in thought, word, or deed—that the law condemns most justly for a sinful thought, as well as a sinful action. Hence the dear Redeemer, in his grand Sermon on the