Lectures in Divinity, Delivered in the University of Cambridge by J. Hey as Norrisian Professor (Paperback)

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. 1822. Excerpt: ... doctrine of original Sin.--And punishment may be distinguished into proper and improper, in the same sense.--1 do not expect this explanation of terms to give full satisfaction at present. Original sin is not mentioned in Scripture, in so many words. 17-It "standeth," or consisteth, "not ia the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk/'--" fabulantur.")--The word lf following" here may mislead an English reader; it means imitating, acting as Adam acted, sinning after Adam's example. The Latin is, "in imitatione Adami: " we find the English word following for imitating, in Scripture. The word "Followers/' is always, -in our Bible, the English for iral, that is., six times; in the passage Eph. v. 1. "Be ye therefore followers of God/' and five other passages.--The Pelagians, by this idea, seem to exclude both our parts of Original Sin, the state of offenders, and the disorder of human propensities; they make it to consist in acting after a certain model or Original: and therefore, in effect, speak only of actual sin, and annihilate original. Augustin's reasoning1 against them agrees with this notion; and in Kin"Edward's intended Laws, in the Chapter against Heresy, those are censured, who reduce original sin to this, "quod ex Adami delicto propositum sit peccandi noxiurn exemplum, quod homines ad eandem pravitatem invitat imitandam et usurpandam." 18. We come next to the words, "the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man," &c. Ep. 88, 89. or, in the new order, 156, 157, from and to Hilarius.--See the passages translated in Wall on Infant Baptism, p. 179. 2d Edition.--And in Nicholls on the Article, &c. Fault in the Latin is vitium, which seertis always to imply a sort of comparison between what is and what might be; or would be, if things...