Litchfield enquirer., 1832-04-26
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evil to be introduced into the world, or that he had not power to prevent it. Yet that he is possessed of almighty power and infinite wisdom, and is Hnchanga- bly hoy is truth too clear and apparent tO be con trovertcd This exhibits the subject in its proper Ighttat as man in his irst made spotless and holy and with moral ability to continue so if he had chosen and that left entirely himself in the voluntary exercise ofhat choice, and with false mo- tive before him. presented to his mind hy the Devil, (which also was permted) he actually transgressed, and involved the whole human race in sin and ruin. Natural we'll spiritual death wasthe consequence of Adams disobedience.
 The next inquiry now is, as Adam was made holy, and aposaiised into sinful state, whether that state into which the fall left him, state of total deprav- ity and complete alienation from holiness, or only state paraking of both holiness and unhoness-whe- ther he became subject of eternal death and lableto it's penalties, whether by complete dsobedence he only almost became subject of that death, which de- s.roys the soul, and did not die though God saidto him In the day thou eaest thereof, thou shalt sure- ly die."
 Supposing Legislature pass law making high way robbery capital crime punishable with death, does the actual commission of the crime subject the
 
 law, or only to a minor punishment And has hea ac- tuaIIy forfeited his life or only endangeredhf
 One case is plain the other. If a man commit robbery, he in the express ofth word rob- Der. There can be half way act in the case, and no hope only in the attribute of mercy and pardon vested in the breast ofthe Judge Chief Magistrate. Yet this attribute in another does not lessen the urp tude of the crime, detract from the depravity Of the heart, lessen the penalty that sjusy merited According to this plain reasoning it s difficult make any thing of Adams transgression but complete traHsgression ofthe divine command And if the dis obedience was voluntary and complete, 50 was the crmina,y; and Adam, the father and representative of the human race became by transgression sinner in the fn and strongest expression of the word that is he became totally deprayed. Disobedience with cred every ves'ige of holiness. His soul sunk like a miIlstone into the midnight shades of moral darkness and the continuance Of the divine image on Adams nature was made entirely dependant on his obedience in not eating the fruit of the of the knowledge of good and evil. And for his transgresson, there natural nor moral necessity. Every thing be- side that could enhance his happiness, or that was delightful to the taste surrounded him, and was free and unprohibited. How great and how inexcusable then was that disobedience-.he cause of all the crimcs and vices and crueltes and all the mseries, pains and wretchedncss that mortally poison human happiness and hedge up every path of life with torns and death! Such is the wide spread consequence of original sn-he caIamitous fruits of one evil hour.
 Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat,
 Signing through all her works, gave signs of woe,
 That all was ost."-
 Hall mankind were included in Adam, as their rep and his became entirely snul could they, hs natural descendants be any otherwise than sinful and depraved as he was Or can an unholy nature possibly be supposed impar holy nature to its offspring by any laws natural metaphysical | Do men gather grapes ofthorns or figs Of thstles '
 Or does bitter fountain send forth sweet waters I" We cannot, without violating the dictates of reason, and the whole of divine inspiration, assume the hypothesis that all children do partake of the ture of their parents in infancr and that all pa rents are not by equally sinful Adam was in the day he ats the forbidden fruit.
 There is no chasn in iransgression. The least act of sin is connected with the frs and actually origin ates from it. is possible to separate them either in nature only one was the voluntary act of the Father and the other the voluntary act of the descendant, and both are simply disobedience.
 An infant is as sinful it is capable of fbeng, not only naturally. but actually, the day it is born. Is natural propensities arc actually sinful; and these pr6penstes increase with age and strength, and are more apparent as the intellect expands. MThey go astray as soon they are born, speaking lies" A child cannot be supposed to possess faculties for the practice of vice virtue beyond s age, or the pow CT olAhinking and judging. Still its first voons are evidently sinu, opposed to obedience and perfect innocence and in this there cannot be said 10 exist any degree ofhoness whatever. The sinful propen- sites of iis fallen nature are percepble before it knows how choose, from their nature, either good or evil or to judge between right and wrong. In the very early days ofchdhOod, much patience and care are commonly requisite to keep the passions calm; and there can be better indication of the heart, than voluntary outward acts when they flow without restraint. IL is contrary 10 tho nature of the uRchan gable God to love creature to-day and hate tomor row, and to hate any degree of holiness in creature, or the creature that Yet he says of one before he was born, '' Esau have lated."
 The next number will bring as 10 more hostile ground-for which the present sd6ject is necessary preparation. OMEGA.
 Sharon, Fsb. 8, 1882.
 (1'o 6e eontinIed.j
 shocking instance of suicide occurred in this 1aa nMvid