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      prepare uv ior a more glorious state of existence . God hath appointed to men once to die , not in resentment ami wrath , but in wisdom and goodness , because this appointment is better calculated , than a total exemption from mortality , ^ o promote our moral

      and intellectual improvement , and the progressive good of society . This cannot be doubted , if it be admitted that God always does what is wisest and best , that he lias constituted man so as best to lit him to act his part , and receive improvementj in the present scene of things , and that , constituted as man is , death is unavoidable : and who can help admitting these things ? In the New Testament , death is

      not spoken of as a punishment inflicted on all mankind for Adam ' s transgression . Neither Jesus , nor any of his apostles , but Paul , nor any of the writers of the New Testament , excepting him , have taken the least notice of Adam ' s sin and its effects . Paul mentions it merely incidentally , to illustrate another subject , without pretending to place it in any new light , or give it any new

      construction : consequently his words ought not to be made the foundation of a new doctrine , unheard of before , nor be supposed to impart any thing more than can be fully gathered from other parts of scri pture to which ] ie alludes , and on which his reasoning is founded ^ unless he merely introduced . a popular notion , without making himself accountable for its correctness , in order to illustrate by the contrast an important doctrine . All that can be justly concluded on this point from his reasoning , in Rom . y . is , that the annunci-

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      ation of . death followed upon ihi first commission of sin , ( v . 12 . ) for Adam was not the first man that actually died , and ihat mortality has passed from him to all his pos .

      terity : that what the sentence passed on him expressed , attaches to all his descendants , tRough noi laid on them as a punishment , which it was in Ms ~ case , bein <* j& associated with guilt , ( v 15—18 . ) From Paul's words , 1 Cor . 15 ,

      21 , 22 , no more than this can ht concluded ,. that death passed from Adam to his posterity , and that all die in-consequence of their connection with him , a mortal progenitor : even as the resurrectiou which commenced in Christ will

      extend to all mankind , from whom life will pass to all who die in connection with Adam * It is presumed the view I have given of this subject , is more con . sistent with the character and per .

      fections of God , especially his justice , and better calculated to reconcile us to the righteous appointment of . death , and to cheer us ii the prospect of it , than the more popular notion : as such I wish to submit it to the

      consideratjon of your readers , and re main , Yours , &c . R . Me . INTYRE

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      Regium Donum . Sir , Feb . 24 , lSU . I have found at the end of « pamphlet entitled < c Genuine Pro . testantisin , ' ' &c , by John Fell , 1773 , the following advertisement :

      " Soon will be published , — Acharis Golden Wedge ; or Royal Bounty Influence ^ traced and displayed from March , 1723 , to the present Time : with seasonable Ai ~

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      254 ' Regium JDonutrt .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/32/