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[As for Original Sin,¹ though we think it an evil Custom, springing from false Doctrine, to use any such expressions as may lead people to think, that to the persons baptized (in whose persons only our Prayers are offered up) Original Sin is not forgiven in their holy Baptism; yet for that there remains in the Regenerate, some relics of that, which are to be bewailed; the Church in her Confession acknowledgeth such desires of our own hearts, as render us miserable by following them; That there is no health in us; That without Gods help our frailty cannot but fall; That our mortal nature can do no good thing without him, which is a clear acknowledgement of original sin.]

[As for Original Sin,¹ though we think it an evil Custom, springing from false Doctrine, to use any such expressions as may lead people to think, that to the persons baptized (in whose persons only our Prayers are offered up) Original Sin is not forgiven in their holy Baptism; yet for that there remains in the Regenerate, some reliques of that, which are to be bewailed; the Church in her Confession acknowledgeth such desires of our own hearts, as render us miserable by following them; That there is no health in us; That without Gods help our frailty cannot but fall; That our mortal nature can do no good thing without him, which is a clear acknowledgement of original sin.]

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Repl. 1. He that hath his Original Sin forgiven him,¹ may well confess, that he was born in Iniquity, and conceived in Sin, and was by nature a Child of Wrath, and that by one man sin entered into the World; and that Judgement came on all men to condemnation, &c. The pardoned may confess what once they were, and from what Rock they were hewn; even actual sins must be confessed after they are forgiven (unless the Antinomians hold the truth against us in such points) 2. All is not false Doctrine that crosseth mens private opinions, which you seem here to obtrude upon us. We know that the Papists (and perhaps some others) hold that all the baptized are delivered from the guilt of Original Sin: But (as they are in the dark, and disagreed in the application of it, so) we have more reason to incline to either of the ordinary opinions of the Protestants, than to this of theirs. 1. Some learned Protestants hold, that visibly all the baptized are Church-Members pardoned and justified; which is, but that they are probably justified indeed, and are to be used by the Church (upon a judgement of Charity) as those that are really justified; but that we have indeed no certainty that they are so, God keeping that as a secret to himself concerning individuals, till by actual Faith and Repentance, it be manifest to themselves. Another opinion of many Protestants is, that all persons that are Children of the Promise, or that have the conditions of pardon and justification in the Covenant mentioned, are to receive that pardon by Baptism: And all such are pardoned, and certainly in a state of justification and salvation thereupon. And that the Promise of pardon is made to the faithful and their Seed, and therefore that all the faithful and their Seed in infancy, have this pardon given them by the promise, and solemnly delivered them, and sealed to them by Baptism, which investeth them in the benefits of the Covenant: but withal, that 1. The professed Infidel and his Seed, as such, are not the Children of the Promise, and therefore if the Parent ludicrously or forcedly, or the Child by error be baptized, they have not thereby the pardon of their sins before God. 2. That the Hypocrite, that is not a true Believer at the heart, though he profess it, hath no pardon by Baptism before God, as being not an Heir of the Promise, nor yet any Infant of his as such: