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Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…
Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life of Christ. Being the substance of several sermons preached at Lincolns Inn: by Edward Reynolds, preacher to that honourable society, and late fellow of Merton College in Oxford.Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life of Christ. Being the substance of severall sermons preached at Lincolns Inne: by Edward Reynoldes, preacher to that honourable society, and late fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostocke, 1631
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First they say, That the aSin of Adam is not any way the sin of his posterity, that it is against the nature of sin, against the goodness, wisdom, and truth of God, against the rule of Equity and Justice, that Infants who are Innocent in themselves, should be accounted Nocent in another; therein taking away Baptism for remission of sins from Infants, who being not borne with guilt of Adams sin stand yet in no need of any purgation.
First they say, That the aSinne of Adam is not any way the sinne of his posterity, that it is against the nature of sinne, against the goodnesse, wisedome, and truth of God, against the rule of Equitie and Iustice, that Infants who are Innocent in themselves, should bee accounted Nocent iu another; therein taking away Baptisme for remission of sinnes from Infants, who being not borne with guilt of Adams sinne stand yet in no neede of any purgation.
- aAnabaptists in their Dialogue of Predestination. Nec Scriptura, nec veracitas, nec sapientia, nec bonitas Divina, nec peccati natura, nec ratio justitiae atque aequitatis permittunt, ut dicamus, Deum posteros Adami revera censuisse eiusdem cum Adamo peccatireos. Remonstr. Apol. seu Exam. Cens. ca. 7 sect. 4. fol. 84.Anabaptists in their Dialogue of Predestination. Nec Scriptura, nec veracitas, nec sapientia, nec bonitas Divina, nec peccati natura, nec ratio iustitiae atque aequitatis permittunt, ut dicamus, Deum posteros Adami revera censuisse eiusdem cum Adamo peccatireos. Remonstr. Apol. seu Exam. Cens. ca. 7 sect. 4. fol. 84.
Secondly, they say that thoughb Adams sin may be thus far said to be unto posterity imputed; as that by reason of it they become obnoxious unto Death, (namely to an eternal dissolution of body and soul without any reunion, and an eternal loss of the divine vision, without any pain of sense) yet that death which to Adam in his person was a punishment, is not so to his posterity, but only the condition of their nature.