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The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
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.
A. Yes, all Children are guilty of the sins which their Parents Committed before their birth, while they were in their loins. Not with the same degree and sort of Guilt as the Parents are; but yet with so much as exposeth them to just penalties.
Q. 18. How prove you that?
A. First by the Nature of the Case: For though we were not Personally existent in them when they sinned, we were seminally existent in them, which is more than Causally or Virtually: And it was tha• semen which was guilty in them, that was after made a person, and so that person must have the same guilt• 2. From the whole History of the Scripture, which tells us of the Children of Cain, the old World, Sodom Ham, the Canaanites, Saul, David (as an Adulterer,) Achan, Gehazi, and others punished for thei• Parents sins: And the Jews cast off and Cursed o• that account to this day. 3. And our common Original sin from Adam proveth it.
A. First by the Nature of the Case: For though we were not Personally existent in them when they sinned, we were seminally existent in them, which is more than Causally or Virtually: And it was tha• semen which was guilty in them, that was after made a person, and so that person must have the same guilt• 2. From the whole History of the Scripture, which tells us of the Children of Cain, the old World, Sodo• Cham, the Canaanites, Saul, David (as an Adulterer,) Achan, Gehazi, and others punished for thei• Parents sins: And the Jews cast off and Cursed o that account to this day. 3. And our common Original sin from Adam proveth it.