Wesley Corpus

“‘For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” (Romans v. 12-19.)” (Page 26.) On this you observe: (1.) That this passage “speaks of temporal death, and no other.” (Page 28.) That it speaks of temporal death is allowed; but not that it speaks of no other. How prove you this? Why thus: “He evidently speaks of that death which ‘entered into the world’ by Adam’s sin; that death which is common to all mankind; which “passed upon all men; that death which “reigned from Adam to Moses;’ that whereby the ‘many,’ that is, all mankind, “are dead.’” He does so; but how does it appear that the death which “entered into the world by ”Adam's sin; which is common to all mankind; which “passed upon all men;” which “reigned from Adam to Moses;” and whereby the many, that is, all mankind, are dead; how, I say, does it appear, from any or all of these expressions, that this is tem poral death only P Just here lies the fallacy: “No man,” say you, “can deny that the Apostle is here speaking of that death.” True; but when you infer, “Therefore he speaks of that only,” we deny the consequence. 9. You affirm : (2.) “By judgment to condemnation, (verses 16, 18,) he means the being adjudged to the forementioned death; for the ‘condemnation’ inflicted by the ‘judgment’ of God (verse 16) is the same thing with “being dead.” (Verse 15.)” (Page 27.) Perhaps so; but that this is merely the death of the body still remains to be proved; as, on the other hand, that “the gift, or free gift,” opposed thereto, is merely deliverance from that death. You add: “In all the Scriptures there is recorded but one ‘judgment to condemnation; one sentence, one judicial act of condemnation, which ‘came upon all men.’” (Page 29) Nay, in this sense of the word, there is not one; not one for mal sentence, which was explicitly and judicially pronounced upon “all mankind.” That which you cite, (Gen. iii.