The True ORIGINAL of the SOUL. [Continued from page 544.] CHA P. IX. That Original Sin cannot pafs but by propagation. ROM the impoffibility of the foul's creation, we proceed FROM now to the neceffity of the propagation thereof in refpect of original fin: the former being not more contrary to the nature of God, than this is agreeable to the course of nature: For, firft, as by God's ordination, original fin paffeth from one to all mankind, fo by propagation all mankind proceed out of one. Secondly, As original fin overspreads the whole man, both foul and body; fo according to the courfe of nature, the whole man both foul and body is propagated. Thirdly, As original fin is feated chiefly in the foul, according to the fcriptures: fo the foul efpecially is propagated according to the course of nature. Wherefore that the truth of the one may appear in fcripture, as the other is manifeft in nature, I will prove first, that original fin cannot pafs but by propagation: fecondly, that it cannot be propagated unless the whole man be. This may appear by the clear teftimonies of fcripture; for, faith the Apoftle, death paffed upon all men, by one man in whom all men finned: or, because all men finned in him. Whence it is manifeft not only that Adam was then all men, that is, the root of all men naturally; in whom all men were, and fo finned in him and with him; but alfo that his fin is therefore demned by Christ in the New Teftament. "But, p. 77, if we interpret that paffage, Matt. xix, as fuch an explanation of God's law from the beginning, as will ferve to prove that all who put away their wives for any other cause than adultery, cause them to commit adultéry, we must condemn a large generation of God's dearest servants and children; and instead of believing that all thefe died in faith, we must say that many of them died in a state of difobedience and unbelief." But indeed, p. 79, "Chrift fo far from altering, changing or deftroying the law, that he enters a caveat against such a suppofition, Matt. v. 17, which not only ftamps unchangeableness upon the law, but upon its import, fenfe, and meaning, as one and the fame throughout all ages and generations, as an invariable rule of life for the members of God's vifible church upon earth, even to the leaft jot or tittle." As to the paffage in Matthew, "If it were meant to condemn the putting away one's wife for any caufe, it amounts fo far to a contradiction, or rather repeal of the old law which permitted it, and then more than a jot or tittle has paffed from the law. means that it was always finful and against the law of God, it condemns, as was before obferved, all that ever practifed it, and falls heavy (no doubt) on fome great faints, renowned for faith and holinefs." And now I appeal to any judicious perfon, if Mr. Madan's reafoning concerning the unchangeableness of the law is of any weight, and proves that polygamy is ftill lawful, (that is, fuppofing we allow it was permitted of old) whether it does not prove with equal evidence that it is ftill lawful to put away one's wife for any cause, especially as Mr. Madan has fhewn, p. 182 and 183, that if a woman has a bad temper, or is refractory and difobedient, to feparate from her and marry another, is a point of neceffity which of confequence is under the control of no law." [To be continued.] The ལམ་ FR The True ORIGINAL of the SOUL. [Continued from page 544] CHA P. IX. That Original Sin cannot pass but by propagation. ROM the impoffibility of the foul's creation, we proceed now to the neceffity of the propagation thereof in refpect of original fin: the former being not more contrary to the nature of God, than this is agreeable to the courfe of nature: For, firft, as by God's ordination, original fin paffeth from one to all mankind, fo by propagation all mankind proceed out of one. Secondly, As original fin overspreads the whole man, both foul and body; fo according to the courfe of nature, the whole man both foul and body is propagated. Thirdly, As original fin is feated chiefly in the foul, according to the fcriptures: fo the foul especially is propagated according to the courfe of nature. Wherefore that the truth of the one may appear in fcripture, as the other is manifeft in nature, I will prove firft, that original fin cannot pafs but by propagation: fecondly, that it cannot be propagated unless the whole man be. This may appear by the clear teftimonies of fcripture; for, faith the Apostle, death paffed upon all men, by one man in whom all men finned: or, because all men finned in him. Whence it is manifeft not only that Adam was then all men, 'that is, the root of all men naturally; in whom all men were, and fo finned in him and with him; but alfo that his fin is therefore demned by Chrift in the New Teftament. "But, p. 77, if we interpret that paffage, Matt. xix, as fuch an explanation of God's law from the beginning, as will ferve to prove that all who put away their wives for any other cause than adultery, cause them to commit adultery, we must condemn a large generation of God's dearest fervants and children; and inftead of believing that all thefe died in faith, we must say that many of them died in a state of difobedience and unbelief." But indeed, p. 79, "Chrift fo far from altering, changing or deftroying the law, that he enters a caveat against such a fuppofition, Matt. v. 17, which not only ftamps unchangeableness upon the law, but upon its import, fenfe, and meaning, as one and the fame throughout all ages and generations, as an invariable rule of life for the members of God's visible church upon earth, even to the least jot or tittle." As to the paffage in Matthew, "If it were meant to condemn the putting away one's wife for any cause, it amounts fo far to a contradiction, or rather repeal of the old law which permitted it, and then more than a jot or tittle has paffed from the law. If it means that it was always finful and against the law of God, it condemns, as was before obferved, all that ever practifed it, and falls heavy (no doubt) on fome great faints, renowned for faith and holinefs." And now I appeal to any judicious perfon, if Mr. Madan's reafoning concerning the unchangeablenefs of the law is of any weight, and proves that polygamy is ftill lawful, (that is, fuppofing we allow it was permitted of old) whether it does not prove with equal evidence that it is still lawful to put away one's wife for any cause, especially as Mr. Madan has fhewn, p. 182 and 183, that if a woman has a bad temper, or is refractory and difobedient, to feparate from her and marry another, is a point of neceffity which of confequence is under the control of no law." [To be continued.] The ROM the impoffibility of the foul's creation, we proceed FROM now to the neceffity of the propagation thereof in respect of original fin: the former being not more contrary to the nature of God, than this is agreeable to the courfe of nature: For, firft, as by God's ordination, original fin paffeth from one to all mankind, fo by propagation all mankind proceed out of one. Secondly, As original fin overspreads the whole man, both foul and body; fo according to the courfe of nature, the whole man both foul and body is propagated. Thirdly, As original fin is feated chiefly in the foul, according to the scriptures: fo the foul efpecially is propagated according to the courfe of nature. Wherefore that the truth of the one may appear in fcripture, as the other is manifeft in nature, I will prove first, that original fin cannot pafs but by propagation: fecondly, that it cannot be propagated unless the whole man be. This may appear by the clear teftimonies of fcripture; for, faith the Apoftle, death paffed upon all men, by one man in whom all men finned: or, because all men finned in him. Whence it is manifeft not only that Adam was then all men, 'that is, the root of all men naturally; in whom all men were, and fo finned in him and with him; but alfo that his fin is therefore |