A26923:402
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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.
§. 3. God doth not repute us to have been what we were not; for he judgeth truly, and is not mistaken: Therefore he judged not Peter and John to have been those Persons in Adam then, nor Adam's person the same with theirs.
§. 3. God doth not repute us to have been what we were not; for he judgeth truly, and is not mistaken: Therefore he judged not Peter and Iohn to have been those Persons in Adam then, nor Adam's person the same with theirs.
§. 4. Therefore we were not then when he sinned persons guilty in Adam; for Non existentis non sunt accidentia.
§. 5. We were Seminally or Virtually in Adam when he sinned: Which is but that he had that Virtus generativa from which we naturally sprang in time; But to be Virtually in him, is Not to be personally in him, but Potentially, it being as to Existence terminus diminuens.
§. 6. As soon as we were Persons, we were Persons derived by Generation from Adam: Therefore with our Persons we derived Guilt and Pravity: For he could beget no better than himself.