“The explanation presented by the doctrine of imputation is demanded by all except Pelagians and Socinians. Man’s is a spiritually dead and condemned race. See Eph. 2:1-5, et passim. He is obviously under a curse for something, from the beginning of life. Witness the native depravity of infants, and their inheritance of woe and death. Now, either man was tried and fell in Adam, or he has be condemned without trial. He is either under the curse (as it rests on him at the beginning of his existence) for Adam’s guilt, or for no guilt at all. Judge which is most honorable to God, a doctrine which, although profoundly mysterious, represents Him as giving man an equitable and most favorable probation in his federal head; or that which makes God condemn him untried, and even before he exists.”
Robert Lewis Dabney, Theology.
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