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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
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And this is the frequent argument of the ancient ⟨p. 209⟩Doctors against the Pelagians to prove that infants1 had sin in their nature, because they were baptized unto the remission of sins.
And this is the frequent argument of the ancient ⟨p. 209⟩Doctors against the Pelagians to prove that infants1 had sinne in their nature, because they were baptized unto the remission of sinnes.
- 1Aug d. peccat. merit & remiss. lib. 1. cap. 16. 17. 24. 26. 28 34 39. lib. 2. cap. 26. 27. 28. l. 3. c. 4. de nupt. & concupiscent. lib. 1. cap. 20. lib. 2. cap. 33. contr. Jul. Pelag. l. 3. cap. 2. 3. lib. 6. c. 16. & locis alijs infinitis. Fulgent de Incarnat. et gratia Christi. cap. 15. Prosper. contr. Coll. cap. 18.Aug d. peccat. merit & remiss. lib. 1. cap. 16. 17. 24. 26. 28 34 39. lib. 2. cap. 26. 27. 28. l. 3. c. 4. de nupt. & concupiscent. lib. 1. cap. 20. lib. 2. cap. 33. contr. Iul. Pelag. l. 3. cap. 2. 3. lib. 6. c. 16. & locis alijs infinitis. Fulgent de Incarnat. et gratia Christi. cap. 15. Prosper. contr. Coll. cap. 18.
To give some answer then to those pretended reasons. To the first we confess that nothing can be toto genere Necessary, and yet sinful: neither is original sin in that sort necessary to the nature in it self, though to the nature in persons proceeding from Adam it be necessary. For Adam had free will, and we in him, to have kept that original righteousness in which we were created, and what was to him sinful, was to us likewise, because we all were one in him. We are then to distinguish of natural and necessary, for it is either primitive and created, or consequent, and contracted necessity; the former would indeed void sin because God doth never first make things impossible, and then command them; but the latter growing out of mans own will originally, must not therefore nullify the Law of God, because it disableth the power of man, for that were to make man the Lord of the Law.