3 3 6 Sins Stipend, and Parts of the Text. Meaning of thewords. Dol?r. Death due to fin as wages, In whichwords we have a defcriptionof a twofold fervice. Of /in in the formerclaufe. Andof God, orriPhteoufne in thelatter. And how both-there arerewarUèd; , "¡ Theone with-death; it payes uswell And theother with life, which is ieflowed by the free gift ofGod through Chriff. Their are tile two parts, thetwo,gcnerahpáiotsthatwearetoconfider. Fill}, the wages'offm is death, bairn ehèApoflle,,,,' _ [Offin] That*, of the deptavaej(in, 'and cdrfiipìinnofour nature, Rod focon- fequentlyofevefvfùi; zat.ben ç aIgrtfelftí;í ,themattet:'andmother of all fin, whenfn hathconceiveditbringetbforth death, when fin is put forth, whereby he ftgnifieth thegeneral depravation andcorruption ofour nature, from whenceall fin flovh, So it is here. [Thefba es] Theword in the original fignifieth properly vi &uals,becaufevi&u als was thaethat ,the Roman Emperors gave their fouldiers as wager, in recom- pence of their fervice but thence the word extends to lignifie anyother wagesor Salary whatfoever. The wages of (in [ is death ] by death here is fignified and meantsboth temporal and eternal death,efpecially eternal death ; for his oppofed to eternal life in thenext claufe of the fentence, therefore that is that that is principally meant,' ?hewages 6ffrn.dt death, that is eternal death. This for the expofìtion of the terms. Thepoint tobe obfervcd from this fief}part of theText is this ; that, Death iádye toírn, atwages to eats that earnsit. To rue hionewages is(áue inaria juftice,if a man haveahired fervant,hemaybe- flow a free gift ©ta him if hAviLlfhe will nothe maychoofe; buthiseflipend or his wages hemull pay him unlefs he will be unjuft, for it is the price ofhis work, and fo is dueto him that be Qnnot without injuftice with-hold it. After fuch amanner is death due to find: th, viry demerit ofthe workof fin requires it, as being earned. God is-as jufk in ;nit ding deathupon tanners for their fins, as anyman is inpaying his labourer or hired fervant their wages : for this is the general plain fcope of the Apofllss-wordshere So in the beginning God appointed, Gen.z.17. where he told Adamconcerning the forbidden fruit, in the day that thou eatefithereof thou(halt die the death. As he fhouldhave faid,when thou finneft,death muff be thy wages. The fame is repeat-1 ed, Ezell 18. so. where it is Paid, thefittl thatfinnetbfhall die, expreffing the wages of fin, it is death, that is the recompence offin: if fin have his due then death muff follow. So the Apoflle had ¡hewed before inthis Epiflle, Rom. 5. is. that by one manfin entred into the world, anddeath by fn,fo death went over all men, for no much at allmen hadfinned. All had finned , therefore all are payedwith death. And Saint.James fh ews the confequence andconnexion between there two,the work and the wages ; he tells us, ?amt.ts. that whenfin hathconceived it bringethforthdeath. All there places are evidences that death by Gods ordinance, byhis appointment is the due of fin, as dueto it, even as wagesis to a hired fervant, orone that hathearn- ed it. .ueff. What death is itthat is due to fin ? Anfw. Both temporal and eternal death. I fay both deaths; concerning both which the What death truth is to be cleared from tome doubts. It was the Pelagians error to think that due to fin. man fhould have died a natural death,though he had never finned : fo they thought t. Temporal. that the natural,temporal,bodily death, was notthe wages of fin. Contrary to the Apoflle in theplace I fpeak of, Rom.5. wherehe makesthat death that goes overall men, ( whichmuffneeds benatural death) to enterby firs, fin brought in death ; no fin, no deathat all. But it maybe ohje&ed, when GodtoldAdam inthe daythat he eatthe forbidden fruit fie fhoulddie thedeath,he meant not temporal death there,as-theevent (hews; for fucha death was not infli&ed upon Adam in theday thathe finned ; forafterhe 7 finned Objeff.
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