Alas, then! was I become a Pelagian?
certainly I could no longer see that Adam's first sin affected me more than his second or third, or so much as the sins of my immediate parents.

A father who, for instance, indulges in furious passions and exciting liquors, may (I suppose) transmit violent passions to his son.

In this sense I could not wholly reject the possibility of transmitted corruption; but it had nothing to do with the theological doctrine of the "Federal Headship" of Adam.

Not that I could wholly give up this last doctrine; for I still read it in the 5th chapter of Romans.

But it was clear to me, that whatever that meant, I could not combine it with the idea of degeneracy, nor could I find a proof of it in the _fact_ of prevalent wickedness.