232 ADVERTISEMENT. I wish with all my soul that no christian controversy might evergive occasion for such excuses on either side. For my part, I pray for the blessing which this author supposes we have always enjoyed ; I wish heartily that original sin may hedemolishedin us all, and have no more existence : But so long as this real and dreadful malady continues to rage through the world, and goes on to destroy. mankind in multitudes, I' hope in every age some wise and happy pens will arise to declare the painful truth, and convince the world of this article, which reason, scripture, and universal experience join to support. If all sense of our native sin and wretchedness be banished from among men, the rising ages may tempted toneglect the only sovereign remedy fbr thegrace of Christ, the second Adam, upon a mistaken presumption, that our natures have received no infection from the first.
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