The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology - Saint Mary ...

mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof." Rom. vi. 12.
6. The penalties of sin.
6. We argue that original sin is truly sin because it incurs the
PENALTIES Of sin.
“How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean
that is born of a woman?" “The stars are not pure in His sight; how much
less man, that is a worm?" Job xxv. 4, 5, 6. "When we were in the flesh, the
motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring
forth fruit unto death." Rom. vii. 5. "0, wretched man that I am! who shall
deliver me from the body of this death?" Rom. vii. 24. "God...condemned
sin in the flesh." Rom. viii. 3. "To be carnally minded is death." Rom. viii.
6. "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." Rom. v. 12. "Death reigned
from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the
similitude of Adam's transgression." Rom. v. 14. "Through the offence of
one, many (oi polloi, 'the many,' that is 'mankind') be dead." Rom. v. 15.
"The judgment was by one to condemnation." Rom. v. 16. "By one man's
offence death reigned by one." Rom. v. 17. "Judgment came upon all men
to condemnation." Rom. v. 18. "They that are in the flesh cannot please
God." Rom. viii. 8. "We all were by nature the children of wrath, even as
others." Eph. ii. 3.
In these passages original sin comes before us in three aspects as to
penalty:
1. As punished by the penalty which comes upon the sins of act,
which original sin originates. The stroke which is aimed at them, of
necessity, strikes it also.
2. As punished together with the sin of act. Each is aimed at, and
each is smitten simultaneously.
3. As subject to punishment in itself antecedent to and separate from
all sin in act. It bears the penalty which comes by the sin of act; it bears the
penalty which it meets in conjunction with the sin of act, and it is subject
to punishment in itself considered. The range of penalty in which it is
involved, is, in one respect, larger than that of actual sin; for while, in