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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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Secondly, Original injustice as it is a sin, by the default and contraction of Man, so it is also a punishment by the ordination, and disposition of Divine Justice. It was mans sin to cast away1 the Image of God; but it is Gods just judgement (as he hath that free dispensation of his own Gifts) not to restore it again in such manner as at first he gave it unto that nature which had so rejected and trampled on it.
Secondly, Originall injustice as it is a sinne, by the default and contraction of Man, so it is also a punishment by the ordination, and disposition of Divine Justice. It was mans sinne to cast away1 the Image of God; but it is Gods just judgement (as hee hath that free dispensation of his owne Gifts) not to restore it againe in such manner as at first he gave it unto that nature which had so rejected and trampled on it.
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Thirdly, In this Original sin, there are two things considerable, The Privation of that Righteousness, which ought to be in us; and the lust or Habitual concupiscence, which carrieth Nature unto inordinate motions. The Privation and want of Original justice is meritoriously from Adam, who did voluntarily deprave, and reject that Original rectitude which was put into him, which therefore God out of his most righteous and free disposition is pleased not to restore unto his Nature in his posterity again. In the habitual lust are considerable these two things [Greek or Hebrew] The sinful disorder of it, And [Greek or Hebrew] the Punishment of sin by it. Consider it is as a Punishment of Adams first Prevarication; and so, though it be not efficiently from God, yet it falls under the Order of his Justice, who did most righteously forsake Adam, after his wilful fall, and leave him in the Hand of his own Counsel, to transmit unto us that Seminary of sin which himself had contracted.