Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .B397 1675

I I O Ofnatural Corruption and Impotencj, per pr¿cepti iflita e aliorum obfervationempermanerent, adpolleros donc in illos collata tranfmitterentur, eadem gratia divina qrs e illfis obligat : vero illi eorum fi indignasfacerent per inobedientiam , polleri quogg ipfo- rum its carerent, & contrariismatis obnoxii ofnt : Hinc accidit ut omnes hommes qui naturaliter ex ip is propagandi fuerint , rnorti temporale & ¿ternie abnoxios evaferint, C dono iftofpiritusfan lifive juftitia originali vacui : lux plena privatio imaginis Dei e peccatum originale appellari filet. An vero pr¿ter carentiam jufitti¿ Originales aliqua contraria quali= tas conftituenda fit, tanquam peccati Originales pars altera, difquiri per- minimua: guamquam arbitramur vero fimilito illam folam carentiamn ipfumpeccatum Originale 0, utpote quefolafuficiet adqtavispeccata aEtu- aliacommittendum producendum. C. " Mark that hefaith, but peccatum Originale appellari Tolet. B. I. But hedifowneth it not. 2. He owneth the name in the next Theis. 3. While he confeffeth the thing, the lisell tantum de nornine, if he had denied the name. AlfoinDifp. privas, 7hef 67. de Baptif. p. 334, 335. he is for Infants Baptifm towafh them in the blood of Chrift, and give them the Holy Ghoft. And he maketh this to be a walking from fin. What elfe thöuld it be? C. " But hetaketh it to bebut Privatio Juftitiæ Originalis. B. a. He takethit to bedoubtful. 2. Remember that he calleth it not Negatio, but Privatio. 3. Almoft all the School-men, and molt or verymanyCalvinfts fay the fame ( though I do not ). C. "But in his Articuli perpendendi in fine , lib. p. 780. col. 2. he "faith, that Peccatunr Originis non eft illud aétuale peccatum quoAdam " legemde arbore fcientixboni & mali tranfgreffuseft, & propter quad "nos omnes peccatores conftituti - futnus & rei faûi condemnations & "mortis. B. r. Mark that he exprefly maketh us by Adam's fin to be . Peccatores e reiconitituti. 2. So in thenext Thetis. AnpeccatumOrigins fit tan- turn carentiajuftitie Originalis, & fanrlimoni eprim¿v., cum inclinatione adpeccandum, qme & antea in homme fuit, licet non ita vehemens, ¿que ¢ inordinata ut nunc eft , propter amif%um favorem Dei, maleditlionem ejufdem, & amiffionem ejus boni, quo in ordinem redigebatur3 An vero contrarias quidam habitus juftitie & fantlimonie infufus (vel ingreffua, acquifitus) poll peccatum perpetratum: Dub. Here he confeffeth allo a pofitive Original Sin in the inordinatenefs of the fenfual inclination. 3. When he deniethAdam's Aélto beour Original. z. He denieth not ( for no Chriftian denieth it) to be the Original sin, that is, the fink fin and the caufe of ours. 2. Andhe feemethbut to mean that. Adam's Sin individually was not ours : which is molt certain : For the fame Accident cannot be in two díftinit Subje is : 'If our perfons be not everyoneAdam's perfon, it is impofflble that the fame individual fin or guilt fhould be his and ours, any more than the fame individual Soul. IfGod did arbitrarily (meerly becaufe hewould doit) imputeAdam's failto allMankind, and toevery one perfonally, this would make it as many fins as there be perfons3 Onemans Original Sinwould not be ano- thers, and noneof theirsthe fame quoadformam numericamwith Adam's. Adams is Adams, and yours is yours, and mine is mine. We cannot therefore be heretick men for fuch doubtful forms of fpeech, in which we differ among our felves. The plain truth is, thematter is not fowell opened commonly among us, as to allow us tocondemn others till we have better done our own parts.

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