Footnote 151:
_He liveth_ for any thing to the contrary shewn in his history.
Footnote 152:
“That _death_ is a punishment for sin, and that all mankind are by
death offered as a _sacrifice_ for sin, is not only a doctrine of
revealed Religion, but the plain dictate of Reason. For, though it is
Revelation alone that can teach us, how God threatened death as the
punishment of a particular sin, yet Reason must be obliged to
acknowledge, that men die, because they are sinners. But if men die,
because they are sinners, and Reason itself must receive this, as the
most justifiable cause of Death; then Reason must allow, that the
death of all mankind is appointed by the true God, as a _sacrifice_
for sin. But, if Reason must acknowledge the death of all mankind as a
sacrifice for sin, then it can have no just objection against the
sacrifice of Christ, _because_ it was _human_.
“Revelation, therefore, teaches nothing more hard to be believed on
this point, than Reason teaches. For, if it be just and fit in God, to
_appoint_ and _devote_ all men to death, as the proper _punishment_ of
their sins; how can it be proved to be unjust and unfit in God, to
receive the death of Jesus Christ, for the same ends?”