A26892:6403
A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Obj. But the Child once in possession shall not be punished for the Parents sin.
Answ. 1. This point is not commonly well understood. I have by me a large Disputation proving from the current of Scripture, a secondary original sin, besides that from Adam, and a secondary punishment ordinarily inflicted on Children for their Parents sins, besides the common punishment of the World for the first sin. 2. But the thing in question is but a loss of that benefit which they received and hold only by another. It is not so properly called a punishment for another's Sin, as a non-deliverance, or a non-continuance of their deliverance, which they were to receive on the condition of another's duty.
Answ. 1. This point is not commonly well understood. I have by me a large Disputation proving from the current of Scripture, a secondary original sin, besides that from Adam, and a secondary punishment ordinarily inflicted on Children for their Parents sins, besides the common punishment of the World for the first sin. 2. But the thing in question is but a loss of that benefit which they received and hold only by another. It is not so properly called a punishment for anothers Sin, as a non-deliverance, or a non-continuance of their deliverance, which they were to receive on the condition of anothers duty.
Obj. But the Church retaineth them as her members, and so their right is not lost by the fault or apostasy of the Parents.
Obj. But the Church retaineth them as her members, and so their right is not lost by the fault or apostasie of the Parents.