Here 'tis very remarkable, the Gentleman who so greatly insisted upon it, that the Word, Death, must needs be understood in the same Sense throughout this Paragraph; yea, that it is evidently, clearly and infallibly so, in as much as the Apostle is still discoursing on the same Subject; yet can, without the least Difficulty, suppose the Word, Sin, to be used so differently in the very same Passage, wherein the Apostle is discoursing on the same Thing. Let us take that one Instance in v. 12. Wherefore as by one Man SIN entered into the World, and Death by SIN, and so Death passed upon all Men, for that all have SINNED. Here, by Sin, implied in the Word, sinned, in the End of the Sentence, our Author understands something perfectly and altogether diverse from what is meant by the Word Sin, not only in the same Discourse, on the same ⟨p. 268⟩Subject, but twice in the former Part of the very same Sentence, of which this latter Part is not only the Conclusion, but the Explication: And also entirely different from the the Use of the Word twice in the next Sentence, wherein the Apostle is still most plainly discoursing on the same Subject, as is not denied: And in the next Sentence to that (v. 14.) the Apostle uses the very same Verb, sinned, and as signifying the committing of moral Evil, as our Author himself understands it. Afterwards (v. 19.) the Apostle uses the Word, Sinners, which our Author supposes to be in somewhat of a different Sense still. So that here is the utmost Violence, of the Kind, that can be conceived of, to make out a Scheme, against the plainest Evidence, in changing the Meaning of a Word, backward and forward, in one Paragraph, all about one Thing, and in different Parts of the same Sentences, coming over and over in quick-Repetitions, with a Variety of other synonymous Words to fix it's Signification; Besides the continued Use of the Word in the former Part of this Chapter, and in all the preceding Part of this Epistle, and the continued Use of it in the next Chapter, and in the next to that, and the 8th Chapter following that, and to the End of the Epistle; in none of which Places is it pretended, but that the Word is used in the proper Sense, by our Author in his Paraphrase and Notes on the whole Epistle.*
Here 'tis very remarkable, the Gentleman who so greatly insisted upon it, that the Word, Death, must needs be understood in the same Sense throughout this Paragraph; yea, that it is evidently, clearly and infallibly so, in as much as the Apostle is still discoursing on the same Subject; yet can, without the least Difficulty, suppose the Word, Sin, to be used so differently in the very same Passage, wherein the Apostle is discoursing on the same Thing. Let us take that one Instance in v. 12. Wherefore as by one Man SIN enter'd into the World, and Death by SIN, and so Death passed upon all Men, for that all have SINNED. Here, by Sin, implied in the Word, sinned, in the End of the Sentence, our Author understands something perfectly and altogether diverse from what is meant by the Word Sin, not only in the same Discourse, on the same ⟨p. 268⟩Subject, but twice in the former Part of the very same Sentence, of which this latter Part is not only the Conclusion, but the Explication: And also intirely different from the the Use of the Word twice in the next Sentence, wherein the Apostle is still most plainly discoursing on the same Subject, as is not denied: And in the next Sentence to that (v. 14.) the Apostle uses the very same Verb, sinned, and as signifying the committing of moral Evil, as our Author himself understands it. Afterwards (v. 19.) the Apostle uses the Word, Sinners, which our Author supposes to be in somewhat of a different Sense still. So that here is the utmost Violence, of the Kind, that can be conceived of, to make out a Scheme, against the plainest Evidence, in changing the Meaning of a Word, backward and forward, in one Paragraph, all about one Thing, and in different Parts of the same Sentences, coming over and over in quick-Repetitions, with a Variety of other synonymous Words to fix it's Signification; Besides the continued Use of the Word in the former Part of this Chapter, and in all the preceeding Part of this Epistle, and the continued Use of it in the next Chapter, and in the next to that, and the 8th Chapter following that, and to the End of the Epistle; in none of which Places is it pretended, but that the Word is used in the proper Sense, by our Author in his Paraphrase and Notes on the whole Epistle.*
- *Agreeable to this Manner, our Author in explaining the 7th Chap. of Romans, understands the Pronoun, I, or Me, used by the Apostle in that one continued Discourse, in no less than Six different Senses. He takes it in the 1st ver. to signify the Apostle Paul himself. In the & 9, 10, & 11th Verses, for the People of the Jews, thro' all Ages, both before & after Moses, especially the carnal ungodly Part of 'em. In the 13th ver. for an objecting Jew, entering into a Dialogue with the Apostle. In the 15, 16, 17, 20th, and latter Part of the 25th ver. it is understood in two different Senses, for two I's in the same Person; one, a Man's Reason; and the other, his Passions & carnal Appetites. And in the 7th & former Part of the last Verse, for Us Christians in general; or, for all that enjoy the Word of God, the Law and the Gospel. And these different Senses, the most of 'em, strangely intermixed and interchanged, backwards and forwards.Ag•eable to this Manner, our Author in explaining the 7th Chap. of Romans, understands the Pronoun, I, or Me, used by the Apostle in that one continued Discourse, in no less than Six different Senses. He takes it in the 1st ver. to signify the Apostle Paul himself. In the & 9, 10, & 11th Verses, for the People of the Jews, thro' all Ages, both before & after Moses, especially the carnal ungodly Part of 'em. In the 13th ver. for an objecting Jew, entring into a Dialogue with the Apostle. In the 15, 16, 17, 20th, and latter Part of the 25th ver. it is understood in two different Senses, for two I's in the same Person; one, a Man's Reason; and the other, his Passions & carnal Appetites. And in the 7th & former Part of the last Verse, for Us Christians in general; or, for all that enjoy the Word of God, the Law and the Gospel. And these different Senses, the most of 'em, strangely intermixed and interchanged, backwards and forwards.
