This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...a real, thing. He was in Adam in this sense only as the effect is in the cause; as there was in Adam the power to produce him, not as something already existing; as the ocean steamer is in the man who makes it So that to charge human nature, separate from personality, with being tainted and guilty is the same ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...a real, thing. He was in Adam in this sense only as the effect is in the cause; as there was in Adam the power to produce him, not as something already existing; as the ocean steamer is in the man who makes it So that to charge human nature, separate from personality, with being tainted and guilty is the same as saying that something is tainted and guilty which has no being at all in reality, but only in imagination; as pure a nothing as a mountain of gold or a flying man--a myth! But were the fact as alleged, that is, had there been coexistence of substance, it would add nothing to that for which it is introduced. It is relied on to explain the doctrine of original sin; that is, to show how in Adam we all sinned and became justly deserving of punishment The difficulty to be overcome is that we had no participation whatever in Adam's sin, and cannot have a participation in his guilt and punishment; that we had no more connection with it than we had with the sin of Satan, and can, therefore, be no more justly amenable in the one case than we could in the other. The ground of the objection is tacitly admitted: that to become guilty it is requisite that we should have some real connection with that which is the occasion of guilt This enforces conviction with all the authority of an intuition, as we shall see throughout the discussion. If by being present with Adam the propounder meant that each of the human race was personally and consciously present, giving his free consent to the act of transgression, acting as a will and intelligently, then it would serve the purpose for which it is introduced; that is, it would prove the act of transgression to be the individual act of each and the common act of all. One hand plucked the fruit, but all the souls...
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