Wesley Corpus

Yet it is true, that whatever death came on them by one man, came upon all mankind; and that in the same sense wherein they “died in Adam,” all mankind died likewise. And that all mankind are not “made alive in ”Christ, as they are, is not God’s fault, but their own.- I know not therefore what you mean by saying, that after Dr. Jennings has proved this whole chapter, and consequently the two verses in question, to relate wholly and solely to the resurrection of the just, “he leaves you in full possession of your argument.” Surely if he proves this, he wrests your whole argument out of your hands. He leaves you not one shred of it. 8. “We come now,” you say, “to the most difficult scrip ture which speaks of this point:-- “‘As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; even ‘so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. “‘For until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. “‘Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. “‘But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. “‘And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift; for the judgment was by one’ offence ‘to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. “‘For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they who receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. “‘Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. “‘For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” (Romans v.