3$ .1Q DISPLAY of human kind, are with him no reafons at all, to perfuade it : (a) For it is againfl equity, faith their apology, that one fbould be countedguiltyfor a fin that is nothis own, that hejhould be reputed nocene, who in regard of his own will is truly innocent : and here, chrifian reader, behold Pelagianifm obtruded on us, without either welt or guard : men on a fudden made pure and truly innocent, notwithflanding all thatnatural pollutionand corruption the fcriptureevery where proclaims them to be replenifhed withal ; neither is the rea- fon they intimateofany value, that their wills affected rot to iy and which alittle be- fore they plainlyurge (b) It is, fay they, againyl thenature offn, thae, that fhould bewizared a fee, or be imputed asa fin to any, by whole own proper will it wasnot committed : which being all they have to fay, they repeat itover and over in this cafe ; it weft bevolunray, or it is nofin. But I lay this is of no force atall. I.) St. john in his molt exafl definition of fun, requires not vol unarinefs to the natureof it, but only an obliquity, a deviation from the rule, it is an anomy, adifcrepaney from the law ; which whether voluntary or no, it skillsnot much : but fare enough, there is in our nature fach a repugnancy to the law ofGod. 2.) So that if originally we are free from a voluntary aftual tranfgref lion, yet we are not froman habitual voluntary digreffon, and exorbitancy from the lace. But 3.) Inrefpeft of our wills we are not thus innocent neither, for we all tuned in Adam, asthe apofle affirmeth. Now all fin is voluntary, fay the Remonflrants, and therefore Adam's tranfgreffon, was our voluntary fin á1fó ; and that in divers refpers ; (r. hi that his voluntaryaft is imputed to us, as ours, by reafon of the covenant whichwas made with himof our behalf; but becaufe this confuting in an imputation, muff needs be extrinfecal untous; therefore (2. We fay, that "Mamboing the root, andheadof all human kind, and we all branches from that root, all parts of that body, whereof hewas thehead, hiswill may be faid to beours, we were then all that one man ON wewere all in him ; and hadno other will but his ; fn that though that be extrinfecal untous, confidered as particular perfois, yet it is intrinfecal, as we are all parts' ofone common nature : as in himwe finned, fo in himwe had a will of finning. (3. Original fin is a defeft ofnature, and not ofthis or that particular perfon (d), whereonAlvarez grounds this difference, ofaftual and original fin, that the one is always committed by the proper will of the firer, to the other is required only the will of our firfl parent, who was thehead of humannature. (4. It ishereditary, natural, and no way involuntary, or put into us againfì:our wills, itpofeffethour wills, and inclines us tovoluntary fin:. I fee no reafon then, why Corvinas Mould affirm as he doth : (e) That it is abfurd, that by one man'sdifobediénce, manyfhauld bemade aflually difobedíent e unlefs he did it pur- pofely to contradift St. Paul, teaching us, that by one nzams difobedience, many were made firmer', Rom. v. 19. Paulusait, Corvinas agar, elagire cui eredati,, choofe whom ye will believe ; Paul or the Arminian. The fum of their endeavour m this particular, is to -clear the natureof man from being any way guiltyofAdam's aftual fm ; as being then in him, a member and part ofthat body whereofhe was the head : or from beingob- . noxious unto an imputationof it, by reafon ofthat coveliant which God made with us all inhim; fo that denying, as you fawbefore, all inherm:t corruption and pravity of 'nature, and now all participation by any means ofAdam'stranfgrefion, methinks they cat a great afperfion on almighty God, however he dealt with Adam for his own part, ,tular, yet for calling us, his moll innocent pollericyout of paradife.. It kerns a hard cafe, that having no obliquity or fin in our nature todeferve it, nor any interet inhis difobedience, rvhofe obedience had been the means ofcbnveying fo much happinefsun- to us : we fhould yet be involved in fo great a purilhment, as we are . For that we arenot now by birthunder agreat curie andpunifhment, they fhall never be able to perfuade any poor foul who ever heard of paradife, or the garden. where God firt placedAdam : and though all the refl, in their judgment, be no great matter, but (a)Contra equitatem et, ut quis reps again. propter peccatum non fnnm,ut sere norm judicetur, G Contra natnram quowoeft anste foam ccatum t eft, Rem cc Apol. o. vii. }òl. 84. (I o voluntate peocai Olin ceh, pecCa[úm, t p cuno, in citehm imputetur, quad pronto vountare priminrnigsnantis, non volunnttase cantrahent'is rataneonatnro,non perfonx( tT n,. col 5. $m: 1. '(e) Abfnrdum of ut no müns obedienfia multi alla inobedienres, faith eifrar, Gahm. adMot. cap. vii.fee. 8. an
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