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Part 4: – A Vindication
Adam,” which is what the passages were cited for. This writer, after
Dr. Whitby, and which he has taken from him, cites a passage of
Hilary’s in which he says 56 , that “we do not endure the second death in
hell for Adam’s sin, but only by occasion thereof it is exacted for our
sins:” and I could direct him to another in the same commentary 57 ,
where he says, delicto Adœ multi tenentur a morte secunda in inferno
inferiori; “many are held by the second death in the lowest hell for the
sin of Adam.”
4. Ambrose is allowed to say some things of men’s deriving pollution
and corruption from Adam, and it is owned that some passages in him
do declare that he thought mankind defiled in Adam, and that they are
undone and destroyed in him: but Ambrose not only declares that a
corrupt nature is derived from Adam, but also, that the fault of his
transgression is transferred or imputed to his posterity, as appears from
what I have cited from him.
As to what Ambrose says concerning infants going to heaven, which
he makes a doubt of, and being freed from punishment; it is to be
hoped they may, through the pardoning mercy of God, the blood of
Christ, and the regenerating grace of the Spirit, notwithstanding the
corruption of their nature, and the imputation of Adam’s sin to them.
5. Mark the Eremite is the last upon the list excepted to; who says,
that “all men have been guilty of the sin of Adam’s transgression, and
have therefore been condemned to death, so that without Christ they
cannot be saved.” Our author desires to know where the Latin word
for guilty is to be found in this passage: Mark’s words are these,
cunctique peccato transgressionis fuerunt; which being literally
rendered is, “all have been in the sin of his transgression;” and is not
the sense the same?
If they were in it, they must be guilty of it; for if not guilty, how
should they be condemned on account of it? for Mark adds, ideoque
56 Comment on Romans 5. p. 209.
57 Comment on Rom. 5. p. 272.
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