the words as he understood them; though it might be mitigated, so as to be more gentle than he feared, in not being with that wrath, and being followed by a resurrection. And so far as they were not understood by Adam, God is obliged by them only according to their proper and fair construction. Adam had a distinct notion of this, that the frame of his body was to be destroyed; but had no distinct notion about the doleful state of the soul the dissolution of the body was to usher in. See Nos. 1083,
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