Davenant - Houston-Packer Collection BT810 .D38 1641

296 The Sublapfir;ans doc1rine onely andno spansperfonall tran f re1sion but e4dams:It wars neither committednor content- ed to by anyofhis posteritie in their own per- foes. 4n%er Adams firfl finne committed in the flare of innocency , wherein by Gods appoint mentgefsitperfoonam generis humani,was eve- rymans perfonall finne , and was contented untoby everymans will.; becaufe in Adam there was not onely the will of one fingu- lar man, but the univerfall will ofall man- kind andof every fingular perfon, as before hath been declared. And I would fain know, if Adams firfl tranfgreffion was his onely and no mans elfe , how every fingular perfon is by God himfelf for that very tranfgreffion effeemed liable unto death. Durandus anfwereth the doubt : Though it ï' Lib. 2 were not n voluntary actan perfonali ìnfanti- clisc. 3 0. dis um( whowere not yet in rerum natura) yet it was voluntary voluntate primi horninis, Ì ttx f uit interpretative volunties omnium. And ifGod himfelf and the catholick Church interpret this will of Adam in difobeying Gods commandment to be fo farre forth our perfonall finne , that every fingular per fon ffandeth culpable of ir, and liable unto punifhment for ir,we muff not give credit ei- ther to theold Pelagians or new Remon- ffrants, when they tell us that fucha decree ánnot ftaiid with Gods mercy, 7Al

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