Of tatural Corruption and Impotency, B. Away with Ambiguity. By the spirit is meant either the ee r received Influx of the Spirit ad agendum; and fo it is granted: Bad men receive the SpiritsInflux to fuch acts as he moveth them to. _Or elfe you mean, the forefaid fixed Habits and Difpofitions, to a ready and facile ordinary Operation. Or elfe you mean, the Spirit given relatively by Covenant, undertaking to be the Sanecifier and Preferver of the Soul. Inboth thefe latter fents, the Spirit is not given before the firth act ofFaith, to Infidels. They havenot the fixedhabits of Ho- Jinefs, Love, Hope,Obedience, &c. Otherwifethey were holy Infidels. No Scripture fpeaketh it : naycontrarily it promifeth the Spiritas to Believers, and affirmeth it given after Faith, Eph. I. 13. job. r4. r7. & r5.26. Gal. 3. 14. &4.6. yob. 7.39. And that the Holy Ghoft isnot given inCovenant to Infidels I need not prove, to them that will not baptizeInfidels. The fixth Crimination. a Yes, P'a(u. and other C. " 7hey hold that none are damnedonly for Adam'sfin imputed. * f thas re B. And I think fo do all Chriftians, or Ihould do. r. Of all the medy, are excluded Adult there isno queftion. Is there any that hath no fin of his own? from Gìn. lory only for ori- Ordotl. God forgive all their own fin to the damned ? And as to In- ginal fants, z. Wife menfhoúld not vex Gods Church with matters no more revealed. . 2. All the Scripture maketh themmembers, as it were, of their nearer Parents as well as of Adam, and as I have proved to you, threatneth themfor nearerParents fins (even in the Second Command- ment, and Éxod. 34.) as well as for Adam's. Andall the world being, Gen. 3. i. brought under a Covenant or Law of Grace, which condi- tionally pardoneth all fin, the not believing of the Parent, is the caute of the non-liberation or not- pardoningof himfelf and his Infant. How can you fay then that they fuffer only for Adam's fin? 3. And Pure their natural pollution is their owrifin : And the Churchof England, Art. 9. thus deferibeth Original Sin : [ "Original Sin ftandeth not in " the followingof Adam (as the Pelagianr dovainly talk) but it is the " fault and corruption-of the nature ofevery man, that naturally is " ° ingendred of theOff-fpring of Adam, whereby man is ,very fargone " from Original Righteoufnefs, and is of his own nature inclined to "evil: So that the Fleih lufteth always contrary to the Spirit: and CO therefore in every perfon born into this world, it deferveth Gods " Wrathand Damnation. And this infection of Nature doth remain, "yea, in them thatare regenerated, whereby the luft of the Flelh, cal- " led in Greek veivr capas, which fomedo expound, the Wifdom, fome "Senfuality, force the Affeetion, fame the Defire of the Flefh, is.not " fubjeet to the Law of God. (Though I think that Text, Rom. 8. fpeak not of the Regenerate. ) C. " I include this Corruption when Ifpeak of Adam's fin imputed; "And though the Article mention not this Imputation, Ifuppofe it was but "through forgetfulnef, and not that they denied it, as no part of ori- ginal Sin. a:
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