The ninth article is so very explicit, that it seems
scarcely possible to misapprehend any part of its mean-*
ing. For two hundred and fifty years it has been un-
derstood to assert the total loss of original integrity,
and the entire corruption of human nature by the fall of
Adam. It was reserved for Dr. Tomline to discover
that this expression ** man is very far gone from ori*
ginal righteousness*' implies that original righteous-
ness is not entirely lost,** (p. 50.) In another work
his lordship states, that when the 39 articles were com-
piled and subscribed in 1562^ they " were drawn up



in Latin only; but m 1571 they >wre subscribed by
the members of both houses, both in Latin and Eng*
lish, and therefore the Latin and EngUsh copies are to
be considered as equally authentic." Consequently,
we should avail ourselves of both, in order to ascertain
the meaning with the utmost possible prmsion. The
clause in the English , article is so evidently at variance
with the iraiplication advancfed by his lordship, that it
is difficult to^ conceive the possibility of such an in-
ference being deduced from it by any one not pre-
viously interested in warping it from its real meaning.
