47° the nature of yu(1i fication, as declared But the prefent inquiry is, how Death paled at once on all Men, how they came liable and obnoxious unto it upon its firff entrance by the alIual fin of Adam ; which cannot be by their own dual fin. Yea the Apoftle in the next Verfes affirms, That death paffed on them alfo, who never finned al'iu- ally, or as Adam did, whofe fin was aîtual. And if the acival Fur of Men in imitation of Adams fin were intended, then 'Mould Men be made liable to Death, before they had finned. For Death upon its jrfl entrance into the World, pafed on all Men, before any one Man had aïtually finned, but Adam only. But that Men thould be liable unto Death, which is nothing but the punifhment of fin, when they have not fin- ned, is an open contradiCion. For although God by his fovereign Power might infliCt Death on an innocent Crea- ture, yet that an innocent Creature fhould be guilty of death is impofíble. For to be guilty of death, is to have finned. Wherefore this exprefíion, In as much as all have finned, ex- preffing the defert and guilt of death, then when fin and death firft entred into the World, no fin can be intended in it, but the fin of Adam, and our intereft therein; Eramws exam omnes illensrs homo. And this can be no otherwife, but by the imputation of the guilt of that fin unto us. For the aá of Adam not being ours inherently and fubjeCtively, we cannot be concerned in its Effea, but by the imputation of its guilt. For the communication of that unto us which is not inherent in us, is, that which we intend by imputa- tion. This is the ,a.d-raon of the intended collation , which I have infìfted the longer on , becaufe the Apoftle lays in it the foundation of all that he afterwards infers, and afferts in in the whole corn parifon. And here fome fay there is an àv,o7r6A470v in his difcourfe, that is, he layeth down the Pro - pofition on the part of Adam, but doth not (hew what an- fwereth to it on the contrary in Chrift. And Origen gives the reafon
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