A09453:56
A Reformed Catholic
A reformed Catholic: or, A declaration showing how near we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundry points of religion: and wherein we must for ever depart from them with an advertisement to all favourers of the Roman religion, showing that the said religion is against the Catholic principles and grounds of the catechism.A reformed Catholike: or, A declaration shewing how neere we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundrie points of religion: and vvherein we must for euer depart from them with an advertisment to all fauourers of the Romane religion, shewing that the said religion is against the Catholike principles and grounds of the catechisme.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1598Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1598
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That which once was sin properly, and still remaining in man maketh him to sin, and entangleth him in the punishment of sin, and makes him miserable: that is sin properly.
That which once was sinne properly, and still remaining in man maketh him to sinne, and intangleth him in the punishment of sinne, and makes him miserable: that is sinne properly.
But original sin doth all these. Ergo.
But originall sinne doth all these. Ergo.
Reason II. Infants baptised and regenerate, die the bodily death before they come to the years of discretion: therefore original sin in them is sin properly; or else they should not die, having no cause of death in them: for death is the wages of sin, as the Apostle saith, Rom. 6. 23. and Rom. 5. 12. Death entered into the world by sin. As for actual sin they have none, if they die presently after they are borne before they come to any use either of reason, or affection.
Reason II. Infants baptised and regenerate, die the bodily death before they come to the yeares of discretion: therefore originall sinne in them is sinne properly; or else they should not die, hauing no cause of death in them: for death is the wages of sinne, as the Apostle saith, Rom. 6. 23. and Rom. 5. 12. Death entred into the world by sinne. As for actuall sinne they haue none, if they die presently after they are borne before they come to any vse either of reason, or affection.