in the Epi/1ler of St. Paul, &c. 469 ir, without any imputation of the guilt of fin unto them; which is a contradi, ion unto the plain words of the Apoftle. For it is the guilt of fin and not natural pro- pagation that he affirms to be the caufe of Death. Having mentioned fin and death, the one as the only caufe of the other, the guilt of fin of the punilhment of death, fin deferving nothing but death, and death being due unto nothing but fin, he declares how all Men univerfally became liable unto this punifhment, or guilty of death. <Q' zrtms ap1ov, in quo omnes peccaverunt ; in whom all have finned. For it relates unto the one Man that finned, in whom all fin- ned; which is evident from the efFe& thereof; in as much as in him all died, i Cor. 15. 22. Or as it is here, on his fin Death paffed on all Men. And this is the evident fenfe of the words, being put for cv, which is not unufual in the Scri- pture. See Matth. 15. 5. Rom.4. 18. Chap.5. 2. Phil. I. 3. Heb. 9. 17. And it is fo often ufed by the belt Writers in the Greek Tongue : So Hejiod !Ares:, ¿ i 7i&'/11 äe25,v, modus in omnibus rebus optimus. So ip' v"¡+"v £57v, in vobis fitum efi. sTD W 'spot X.c TW, hoc in me fitum e fl. And this reading of the words is contended for by Aufline againft the Pelagian: re- jeEáing their co quod or propterea. But I (hall not contend about the reading of the words. It is the artifice of our ad- verfaries to perfwade Men, that the force of our Argument to prove from hence the imputation of the fin of Adam unto his pofterity, doth depend folely upon this interpretation of thefe words, by, in whom. We that' therefore grant them their delire, that they are better rendred by eo quod, propterea, or quatenus 5 in as much,becaufe. Only we Inuit fay,, that here is a reafon given, Why Death pa'd on all Men,in as much as all have finned, that is, in that fin whereby death en- tred into the World. It is true,! Death by vertue of' the original conftitution of the Law, is due unto every lin, when ever it is committed. But
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