The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended

And as to the Apostle's Use of the Word Death, in the Passage now under Consideration, on the Supposition that he in the general means the whole of that Death which is the Wages of Sin, there is nothing but what is perfectly natural in supposing, that he, in order to evince, that Death, the proper Punishment of Sin, comes on all Mankind, in Consequence of Adam's Sin, should take Notice of that Part of this Punishment, which is visible in this World, and which every Body therefore sees does in Fact come on all Mankind (as in v. 14.) and from thence should infer, that all Mankind are exposed to the whole of that Death which is the proper Punishment of Sin, whereof that temporal Death which is visible, is a Part, and a visible Image of the whole, and (unless changed by divine Grace) an Introduction to the principal, and infinitely the most dreadful Part.

II. Dr. T—r's Explanation of this Passage makes wholly insignificant those first Words, By one Man, Sin entered into the World, and leaves this Proposition without any Sense or Signification at all. The Apostle had been largely and elaborately representing, how the whole World was full of Sin, in all Parts of it, both among Jews and Gentiles, and all exposed to Death & Condemnation. 'Tis plain, that in these Words he would tell us, how this came to pass, namely, that this sorrowful Event came by one Man, even the first Man. That the World was full of Sin, and full of Death, were two great and notorious Facts, deeply affecting the Interests of Mankind; and they seemed very wonderful Facts, drawing the Attention of the more thinking Part of Mankind every where, who often asked this Question, Whence comes Evil, moral and natural Evil? (The latter chiefly visible in Death.) 'Tis manifest, the Apostle here means to tell us, how these came into the World, and came to prevail in it as they do. But all that is meant, according to Dr. T—r's Interpretation, is, " He begun Transgression." ^*As if all that the Apostle meant, was, to tell us who happened to sin first; not how such a Malady came upon the World, or how any one in the World, besides Adam himself, came by such a Distemper. The Words of the Apostle, By one Man Sin entered INTO THE WORLD, and Death by Sin, show the Design to be, to tell us how these Evils came, as affecting the State of the World; and not only as reaching one Man in the World. If this were not plain enough in itself, the Words immediately following demonstrate it; And so Death passed upon ALL MEN, for that all have sinned. By Sin's being in the World, the Apostle don't mean being in the World only in that one Instance of Adam's first Transgression, but being abroad in the World, among the Inhabitants of the Earth, in a wide Extent and continued Series of Wickedness; as is plain in the first Words of the next Verse, For until the Law, Sin was