C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

Adam was our federal head; he represented us; and when he sinned, we sinned representatively in him, and what he did was imputed to us. You say that you never agreed to the imputation. Nay, but I would not have you say thus, for as by representation we fell, it is by the representative system that we rise. 395.381 We fell, by no act of our own, in the first Adam; and we rise, without any merit of our own, in the second Adam. 2762.27 Always remember that the federal principle has been adopted by God in his dealings with the human race from the very beginning. 2933.207 If any object to this principle of representation, that does not affect its truth, and I would also remind them that, by this very principle of representation, a way was left open for our restoration. The angels did not sin representatively, they sinned personally and individually; and therefore there is no hope of their restoration, but they are “reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” But men sinned representatively, and this is a happy circumstance for us, “for as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” As we fell through one representative, it was consistent with the principles upon which God was governing mankind that he should allow us to rise by another Representative. At first, we fell not by our own fault; so now, by grace, we rise not by our own merit. 3198.242