A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

as the other Evangelists, Dost thou betray the son of man with a kiss? Although if we should render it causally, as the adversaries contend, it would no ways prejudice the truth we plead for; seeing that the sin here charged upon all mankind, is, because of Adam. And therefore if we will make any rational coherence in the Apostles discourse, it must be after this manner, As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, ⟨p. 518⟩as much as all have sinned, that is, all sinned in that one man, for what sense it is to say, That by one man sin and death entered upon all, because all sinned in themselves? This would be a contradiction to lay the death of mankind upon Adam's sin, and upon all mens actual sins likewise: Yea, it is wholly repugnant to the Apostles scope, who is comparing Adam and Christ not simply as two originals and beginnings, but as two causes of death and life. Indeed I would not much contend with any, that would render the word causally, and so make the verse an whole entire proposition in it self, without any defective expression at all; so that we understand all mens sinning to be interpreted of that which they are guilty of in Adam. It is not worth time to take notice of the wild Divinity imposed upon this Discourse of Pauls, by the late Writer, ( Unum Necessar. pag. 365) who would have Death come upon mankind occasionally only by Adam's sin, and that but till Moses his time, and after Moses to come upon a new account, by the Law promulged through his ministry. The mentioning of this is confutation enough: for here in this Text the Apostle doth make all mankind to die, because of Adam: And why may not [Greek or Hebrew] here be the same with [Greek or Hebrew] in the Text.

as the other Evangelists, Dost thou betray the sonne of man with a kisse? Although if we should render it causa•ly, as the adversaries contend, it would no wayes prejudice the truth we plead for; seeing that the sinne here charged upon all mankind, is, because of Adam. And therefore if we will make any rational coherence in the Apostles discourse, it must be after this manner, As by one man sinne entered into the world, and death by sinne, and so death passed upon all men, ⟨p. 518⟩as much as all have sinned, that is, all sinned in that one man, for what sense it is to say, That by one man sinne and death entred upon all, because all sinned in themselves? This would be a contradiction to lay the death of mankind upon Adam's sinne, and upon all mens actual sinnes likewise: Yea, it is wholly repugnant to the Apostles scope, who is comparing Adam and Christ not simply as two originals and beginnings, but as two causes of death and life. Indeed I would not much contend with any, that would render the word causally, and so make the verse an whole entire proposition in it self, without any defective expression at all; so that we understand all mens sinning to be interpreted of that which they are guilty of in Adam. It is not worth time to take notice of the wild Divinity imposed upon this Discourse of Pauls, by the late Writer, ( Ʋnum Necessar. pag. 365) who would have Death come upon mankind occasionally onely by Adam's sinne, and that but till Moses his time, and after Moses to come upon a new account, by the Law promulged through his ministry. The mentioning of this is confutation enough: for here in this Text the Apostle doth make all mankind to die, because of Adam: And why may not here be the same with in the Text.