410, The014Man andthe .?e»^Man. by thismeanes finebath feized,and doth,andwill vpon cueryfonntof Adam in hisbirth: what fhould we tireout ourfelues with queftions about theman_ eeluia.m!. ner ? It isa good fpeech ofreuerendCalaiaes : Thevnianfallcorrapetanofawns. wan. tare,proceedethnofa machwitofgeneration,as Godrorduration. Inane manGadador_ medalsall,and isthefameonehef rippedvsaU:fo that noweuery onethat commeth from him by ordinarydef cent, isas hewas, guiltyof the fame finne, and ble_ mifhedwith the famecorruption. Thus I haue labouredabout this neceffary doârine,touching mansnatiuecorruption. Euery man is Flefb, that is, (inthe language oftheScripture) avery heape ofcorrupcion.Thismy Textauoucheth, thisthe Scripture iullifieth(it affirmes this raft ofcorruption to haue eatenand fretted into mansnoblefì parts : hismind,hisvadertianding,hiswifdome,the bell whichhe bath in him, iscorrupt ; He is ftreamed, out ofan infeaed form.. mine : his fatherFhfb, and thatwhich isborne thereof, mullneeds be usitable. Thiscorruption is hated in the route. The Father by GodsLaw ofnature, ha_ uinga foule,begets a forme indeedwitha route:The fatherhauing a corrupted. foule, by Gods Lawofiuftice begetsa forme, whore foule is alloRained wish corruption. This is the famine. Th.Yfe. Imight enlarge my felfe into fundry oresof thisdo&rine. Fiat, Imight apply it againft the ancienterrour of theHeretique Pe/agiaa , and his follow ers,whomaintained,thatfinne is come fromAdam ro his pofterity,not by pro. Nottransjudit pagation, but by imitation. Adam finned (fay they) and fo madeouer tohis cuiloo lean- race, a natureguiltyof thewant oforiginalirighteoufnelfe; bait beconaeiedaaa dun proprumany thingwhichmayÌetra('calledfieme. How is this then truewhich is here laid; tonemsuF thattheofffpringofFie/bisFlefb? Whofoeuer isborne and begotten byman, isa corruptedcreature. All in Adam finned. Adams offence in eating thefor. bidden fruit, is not to be reputed as aperfonall offence, but he beinga pub. like perfon , it was a publike Anne, euenthe finneofall man- kinde. Looke therefore in what cafe .Adam was, prefently vponhis trcrpaffe, in the fame iseueryoneby nature : neither could Adamconuey hisnatureontohis poke rity, but bee mull needswithall conuey thecorruption of his nature. Irisa true raying, thatin thefirft man theperfon corrupted nature, but ineueryo. ther man,nature corrupts theperfon. Whofoeuer isa manby thepropagation of Adamsnature, the fame isalfoafrnnerby thederiuingouerof his corrup tion. Secondly, I might afrovrge this againft Come Papilis, whoare in this point(aa they are tightlycalled) Semi-pelagians, they acknowledgingorigi- nall corruption,yet doelimit it,and doemake it to haue placeonely in the fen.. fuall parts , and not properly in the foule andmind Itrefetb (faith agreat Andrad. ìtt de- Papift) in thei?le/b, (vnderftanding thereby the inferiour faculties,) as in a tar,:"" fortor (conce ofdefence, and from thence it maketh an affault againft the Tridts minder But it hath been proued, that euettAliemindeof man iscorrupt. For h ColoC ;am. whichcaufe,Paalvrgetha neccllity ofbeinglRrewed in *yardedge b. his true, therebe things yet in nature, which (limply) confideredas endowments of 0046d-towing, aregood : foas is," the acknowledgment ofadiuinepower; fome dillin&ión ofgood and milli in the confcience, force ingenuity in the things which concernethis prefentlife, &c. There and the like remaineyet in nature;and arein themfeluesnot euill,yet in natural!man they be focorrupted, that they can neuer worke to good, Nonaturall man waseuer able out of Steritetvirta. there tobring forthany fach abtion, as might be called rightlygood , andin tes &peno, that refpe&accepted with God. Thofepraife.worthy alts of many famous filmdids. Heathen, ifwee growtoaflraite examinationofthings ,werebut,(as they are called,)barrmvertaet,aadglorioas frames. Thofe thingsmight bethusiullly,and More at largevrged againft thePapifts,the grandPatrons ofnature, whowill not yeeld it robe fowholyfefb,but that there may be found in it fomewhat free andincorrupv.whichmay fonarvhat furthera mans faluation. But I contentmy felfe
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