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A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…
A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the several dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.
London: printed by R. Hearne and John Norton for Robert Bostock, 1640
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Unto which Argument to omit the different resolutions of other men touching the pollution of the Soul by the immediate contact of the flesh, and the Parents attinging the ultimate disposition of the Body, upon which naturally followeth the Union of the Soul, (God being pleased to work ordinarily according to the exigence of second causes, and not suffering any of them to be in vain for want of that concurrence, which he in the virtue of a first and supreme cause is to contribute unto them.) I shall set down what I conceive to be the Truth in this point.
Unto which Argument to omit the different resolutions of other men touching the pollution of the Soule by the immediate contact of the flesh, and the Parents attinging the ultimate disposition of the Body, upon which naturally followeth the Union of the Soule, (God being pleased to work ordinarily according to the exigence of second causes, and not suffering any of them to be in vain for want of that concurrence, which he in the vertue of a first and supreame cause is to contribute unto them.) I shall set downe what I conceive to be the Truth in this point.
First then, it is most certain that God did not implant Original sin, not take away Original righteousness from Man, but man by his Prevarication1 and Fall did cast it away, and contract sin, and so derive a defiled nature to his posterity. For as Ma•arius excellently speaketh, Adam having2 transgressed, did lo• the pure possession of his Nature.
First then, it is most certaine that God did not implant Originall sinne, not take away Originall righteousnesse from Man, but man by his Praevarication1 and Fall did cast it away, and contract sin, and so derive a defiled nature to his posterity. For as Maarius excellently speaketh, Adam having