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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.
C. Have not all men the same degree of Original Sin? What can be said more of any than is said of all, that they are dead in sin?
B. 1. The same word [Dead] may be used of all, if it were words only that you plead for. But that word proveth not that all are equally either guilty or corrupted. For though Adam's sin be the same to all, yet I have before told you (and showed you besides Scripture, Augustine's judgment for it) that there is also a participation of Guilt of nearer Parents sins by Infants; And consequently of Pravity: Were it but the ill temper of body which many Drunkards and Adulterers convey to their Children, experience telleth us that it doth much in hindering the Soul. And all are not equal in this derivation of Original Sin. ⟨p. 148⟩2. And Adam's sin, with all other being pardoned to faithful Parents, is in them pardoned to their Infants dedicated to God; And we have reason to think that where the Guilt is pardoned, the Vice is not equally transmitted as to others that are not pardoned in their infancy. 3. And it is not only Original Sin, but much additional Pravity, and particular habits of sin, contracted by practice, which is the impediment of Conversion. 4. Yea, and actual sin it self, which temptations stir up, as well as those habits. 5. And also the great guilt which all those acts and habits do contract, by which Gods Grace is yet more forfeited. All these are a great disparity, and show that more Grace is necessary to some than others.
B. 1. The same word [Dead] may be used of all, if it were words only that you plead for. But that word proveth not that all are equally either guilty or corrupted. For though Adam's sin be the same to all, yet I have before told you (and shewed you besides Scripture, Augustine's judgment for it) that there is also a participation of Guilt of nearer Parents sins by Infants; And consequently of Pravity: Were it but the ill temper of body which many Drunkards and Adulterers convey to their Children, experience telleth us that it doth much in hindering the Soul. And all are not equal in this derivation of Original Sin. ⟨p. 148⟩