parents only to the third or fourth generation, how has it happened
that Adam's transgression is imputed to all his posterity, and
punished throughout all generations? Is there any consistency, or
harmony, in such views respecting the government of the world?

174 Wiggers's Presentation, note by translator, p. 285.

175 Edwards on Original Sin, part iv, ch. iii.

176 Institutes, book ii, ch. i.

177 Divine Attributes.

178 Sermon on Original Sin.

179 Original Sin, part i, ch. ii.

180 Original Sin, part i, ch. ii.

181 Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles, article ix.

182 Ibid.

183 Edwards on Original Sin, part iv, ch. iii.

184 See Knapp's Theology, vol. ii, art. ix, sec. 76; also Wiggers's
Presentation of Augustinism and Pelagianism, chap. xix, p. 268.

185 Harmonie de la Raison et de la Religion.

186 Ibid., Almeyda.

187 Wiggers's Presentation of Augustinism and Pelagianism, chap. iv.

188 Sermon on Compassion.

189 Butler's Analogy, part i, chap. iii.

190 Analogy, chap. v.

191 Id., chap. v, p. 178.

192 Part i, chap. vi.

193 Part i, chap. ii.

194 This language of Bacon is applied by him to the empirical and
rational faculties of the human mind.

195 Butler's Analogy, part ii, chap. v.

196 Analogy.

197 Ibid.

198 Letter on the Duration of Future Punishment, pp. 19, 20.

199 Letter, &c., pp. 15-18.

200 Robert Hall supposes that Edwards must have found it in Owen. He
might have found it in a hundred earlier writers.

201 Wiggers's Presentation, p. 210--Note by Translator.

202 Wiggers's Presentation, p. 210--Note by Trans.

203 Freedom of the Will, p. 38.

204 Letter, pp. 21, 22.

205 Jeremy Bentham.

206 On one point we fully concur with Mr. Foster, (see Letter, p. 27:)
"As to religious teachers, if this tremendous doctrine be true,
surely it ought to be almost continually proclaimed as with the
blast of a trumpet, inculcated and reiterated, with ardent passion,
in every possible form of terrible illustration; no remission of the
alarm to thoughtless spirits."

But if it be so incumbent on religious teachers, who believe this
awful tenet, thus to proclaim it to a perishing world, is it not
equally incumbent on them not to speak on such a subject at all
until they have taken the utmost pains to form a cor