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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
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.
The sixth Crimination.
C. They hold that none are damned only for Adam's sin imputed.*
- *Yes, Vasqu. and other Jesuits hold, that Infants that have no remedy, are excluded from Glory only for Original Sin.Yes, Vasqu. and other Jesuites hold, that Infants that have no remedy, are excluded from Glory only for Original Sin.
B. And I think so do all Christians, or should do. 1. Of all the Adult there is no question. Is there any that hath no sin of his own? Or doth God forgive all their own sin to the damned? And as to Infants, 1. Wise men should not vex Gods Church with matters no more revealed. 2. All the Scripture maketh them members, as it were, of their nearer Parents as well as of Adam, and as I have proved to you, threateneth them for nearer Parents sins (even in the Second Commandment, and Exod. 34.) as well as for Adam's. And all the world being, Gen. 3. 15. brought under a Covenant or Law of Grace, which conditionally pardoneth all sin, the not-believing of the Parent, is the cause of the non-liberation or not-pardoning of himself and his Infant. How can you say then that they suffer only for Adam's sin? 3. And sure their natural pollution is their own sin: And the Church of England, Art. 9. thus describeth Original Sin: [Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk) but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the Off-spring of Adam, whereby man is very far gone from Original Righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil: So that the Flesh lusteth always contrary to the Spirit: and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth Gods Wrath and Damnation. And this infection of Nature doth remain, yea, in them that are regenerated, whereby the lust of the Flesh, called in Greek [Greek or Hebrew], which some do expound, the Wisdom, some Sensuality, some the Affection, some the Desire of the Flesh, is not subject to the Law of God.] (Though I think that Text,