A25291:574
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity
The marrow of sacred divinity drawn out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latin ... ; whereunto are annexed certain tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.The marrow of sacred divinity drawne out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latine ... ; whereunto are annexed certaine tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Overton, 1642
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.
4. By real communication the same singular sin is not derived to us, but the same in kind, or of the same reason and nature.
4. By reall communication the same singular sin is not derived to us, but the same in kind, or of the same reason and nature.
5. Original sin, seeing it is formally a privation of original righteousness, and this privation doth follow ⟨p. 78⟩the first sin as a punishment, hence it hath the respect of a punishment in order of nature, before it hath the respect of a sin. As by the Justice of God that original righteousness is denied, so far forth it is a punishment: As it ought to be in us, and yet through mans fault in wanting, so far forth it is a sin.
5. Originall sin, seeing it is formally a privation of originall righteousnesse, and this privation doth follow ⟨p. 78⟩the first sin as a punishment, hence it hath the respect of a punishment in order of nature, before it hath the respect of a sinne. As by the Iustice of God that originall righteousnesse is denied, so far forth it is a punishment: As it ought to be in us, and yet through mans fault in wanting, so far forth it is a sin.
6. Therefore this privation is derived from Adam by way of desert, as it is a punishment; and by way of a real efficient, as it hath the respect of a sin joined to it, for in that that any is borne a son of Adam, he is made worthy to be endowed with righteousness: when therefore he ought to have it, and hath it not, that want to him is sin.