changed into a nature. But while sin brings on death, it requires that the penalty due to itself be paid through a nature. God had made man’s nature such that He was creating man for life. However, when this nature reluctantly generates [offspring] destined to death, it acknowledges that it is subject to sin, and serves as the minister in this life of the penalty due to sin. For, brethren, who would hold opinions like these—that nature would desire its infants to perish, and those young so dear to