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…

Lastly, they say that Adam being by God deprived of original righteousness, (which is the faculty and fountain of all obedience) and being now constituted under the deserved curse,^f all the debt of legal obedience, wherein he and his posterity in him were unto God obliged, did immediately cease; so that whatsoever outrages should after that have been by Adam or any of his children committed they would not have been sins, or transgressions, nor involved the Authors of them in the guilt of just damnation. That which unto us reviveth sin, is the new covenant; because therein is given unto the law new strength to command, and unto us new strength to obey, both which were evacuated in the fall of Adam. Upon which premises it doth most evidently follow; that unless God in Christ had made a covenant of grace with us anew, no man should ever have been properly and penally damned but only Adam; and he too, with no other then the loss of Gods presence: (For • Hell and torments are not the revenge of Legal, but of Evangelical disobedience) not for any actual sins, for there would have been none, because the exaction of ⟨p. 204⟩the Law would have ceased; and where there is no Law, there is no transgression; not for the want of righteousness, because that was in Adam himself but a punishment, and in his posterity neither a sin, nor a punishment, but only a condition of nature; not for habitual concupiscence, because though it be a^h disease and an infirmity, yet it is no sin, both because the being of it is connatural and necessary, and the operations of it inevitable and unpreventable for want of that bridle of supernatural righteousness which was appointed to keep it in. Lastly, not for Adams sin imputed, because being committed by another mans will, it could be no mans sin but his that committed it.

Lastly, they say that Adam being by God deprived of originall righteousnesse, (which is the facultie and fountaine of all obedience) and being now constituted under the deserved curse,^f all the debt of legall obedience, wherein he and his posteritie in him were unto God obliged, did immediately cease; so that whatsoever outrages should after that have beene by Adam or any of his children committed they would not have beene sinnes, or transgressions, nor involv'd the Authors of them in the guilt of iust damnation. That which unto us reviveth sin, is the new covenant; because therein is given unto the law new strength to command, and unto us new strength to obey, both which were evacuated in the fall of Adam. Vpon which premises it doth most evidently follow; that unlesse God in Christ had made a covenant of grace with us anew, no man should ever have beene properly and penally damned but onely Adam; and he too, with no other then the losse of Gods presence: (For Hell and torments are not the revenge of Legall, but of Evangelicall disobedience) not for any actuall sinnes, for there would have beene none, because the exaction of