Mystical bedlam, or the world of mad-men. By ThoMystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho

It is said, Gen. 5.¹ that Adam begat a son in his ⟨p. 4⟩own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth. This image and likeness cannot be understood of the Soul: for this Adam begat not. Nor properly and merely of the Bodies shape; so was Cain as like to Adam, as Seth, of whom it is spoken. Nor did that image consist in the piety and purity of Seth: Adam could not propagate that to his son, which he had not in himself: virtues are not given by birth, nor doth grace follow generation, but regeneration. Neither is Seth said to be begotten in the Image of Adam, because mankind was continued and preserved in him. But it intends that corruption, which descended to Adams posterity by natural propagation. The Pelagian error was, Peccatum primae transgressionis in alios homines, non propagatione, sed imitatione transisse: that the guilt of the first sin was derived to other men, not by propagation, but by imitation: but then could not Adam be said, to beget a son in his own image: neither could Death have seized on Infants, who had not then sinned. But all have sinned, Rom. 5.² As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin: so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

It is saide, Gen. 5.¹ that Adam begate a sonne in his ⟨p. 4⟩owne likenesse, after his image, and called his name Seth. This image and likenesse cannot bee vnderstood of the Soule: for this Adam begate not. Nor properly and meerely of the Bodies shape; so was Cain as like to Adam, as Seth, of whom it is spoken. Nor did that image consist in the piety and purity of Seth: Adam could not propagate that to his sonne, which hee had not in himselfe: vertues are not giuen by birth, nor doth grace follow generation, but regeneration. Neyther is Seth said to bee begotten in the Image of Adam, because mankind was continued and preserued in him. But it intends that corruption, which descended to Adams posterity by naturall propagation. The Pelagian error was, Peccatum primae transgressionis in alios homines, non propagatione, sed imitatione transisse: that the guilt of the first sinne was deriued to other men, not by propagation, but by imitation: but then could not Adam be said, to begette a sonne in his owne image: neyther could Death haue seazed on Infants, who had not then sinned. But all haue sinned,