468 The nature ofyu f h fication, as declared fin, made fubjea to death, or liable unto punifhment. They were fo by vertue of Divine Conflitution upon theirfoderal exiflence in the one Man that finned. And actually they be- came obnoxious in their own perfons unto the fentence of it, upon their firft natural exiflence, being born children of wrath. It is hence manifeft what fn it is that the Apoutle intends, namely, The aelualfin of Adam; the one fin of that one com- mon perfon whileft he was fo.. For although the corruption and depravation of our nature, doth neceffarily infue there- on, in every one that is brought forth aEtually in the World by Natural Generation; yet is it the guilt of Adams actual fin alone, that rendred them all obnoxious unto death upon the Firfl entrance offin into the World. So death entred by fin, the guilt of it,, obnoxioufnefs unto it, and that with re- fped unto all Men univerfally. Death here comprifeth the whole punifhment due unto fin, be it what it will, concerning which we need not here to difpute. The wages of fin is death, Rom. 6.23. and nothing elfe. Whatever fin deferves in the Juftice of God, what- ever punifhment God at any time appointed or threatned unto it, it is comprifed in death : In the day thou eat fl there- of, thou fualt die the death. This therefore the Apoftle lays down as the foundation of his difcourfe, and of the compari- - fon which he intends; namely, that in and by the aClual jun of Adam, all Men are made liable unto death, or unto the whole punifhment due unto fin. That is, the guilt of that fin is imputed unto them. For nothing is intended by the impu- tation of _fin unto any, but the rendring them juflly obnoxious unto the punifhment due unto that fin. As the not imputing of fin, is the freeing of Men from being fubjet$ or liable un- to punifhment. And this fuficiently evidenced) the vanity of the Pelagian Glofs that Death pafléd upon all, meerly by ' vertue of natural propagation from him who had deferved ir9.
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