The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended

And viewing this Discourse it self, in the very Paragraph we are upon, if we may judge any thing by Language and manner of Speaking, there is every thing to lead us to suppose, that the Apostle uses these Words here, as he does elsewhere, properly, and as implying a Supposition of Sin, chargeable on the Subject, and exposing to Punishment. He speaks of Condemnation with reference to Sin, as what comes by Sin, and as a Condemnation to Death, which seems to be a most terrible Evil, and capital Punishment, even in what is temporal and visible; and this in the Way of Judgment and Execution of Justice, in Opposition to Grace or Favour, and Gift or a Benefit coming by Favour. And Sin and Offence, Transgression and Disobedience are, over and over again, spoken of as the Ground of the Condemnation and of the capital Suffering ⟨p. 256⟩condemned to,—for ten Verses successively, that is, in every Verse in the whole Paragraph, without missing one.

The Words, Justification and Righteousness, are explained by Dr. T. in a no less unreasonable Manner. He understands Justification in v. 18th, and Righteousness in v. 19th,—in such a Sense, as to suppose 'em to belong to all, and actually to be applied to all Mankind, good and bad, Believers & Unbelievers; to the worst Enemies of God, remaining such, as well as his peculiar Favourites, & many that never had any Sin imputed to 'em; meaning thereby no more than what is fulfilled in an universal Resurrection from the Dead, at the last Day.^* Now this is a most arbitrary, forced Sense. Th• these Terms are used every where, all over the New Testament, yet nothing like such an Use of 'em is to be found, in any one Instance, through' all the Writings of the Apostles & Evangelists. The Words, Justify, Justification, and Righteousness, as from God to Men, are never used but to signify a Privilege belonging only to some, and that which is peculiar to distinguished Favourites. This Apostle in particular, above all the other Writers of the new Testament, abounds in the Use of these Terms; so that we have all imaginable Opportunity to understand his Language, and know the Sense in which he uses these Words: But he never elsewhere uses 'em in the Sense supposed here, nor is there any Pretence that he does. Above all, does this Apostle […] in the Use of these Terms in this Epistle. JUSTIFICATION is the Subject he had been upon through all the prcding Part of the Epistle. It was the grand Subject of all the foregoing Chapters, and the preceding Part of this Chapter; where these Terms are continually repeated. And the Word, Justification, is constantly used to signify something peculiar to Believers, who had been Sinners; implying some Reconciliation and Forgiveness of Sin, and special Privilege in Nearness to God, above the rest of the World. Yea, the Word is constantly used thus, according