A26923:403
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.
§. 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.
§. 7. When Adam sinned his whole Person was guilty and no part innocent: Therefore his very Semen prolificum had its part in the guilt according to its Capacity; And though it was not a guilty ⟨p. 95⟩Person, it was a part of a guilty Person; and a part that was the Semen personae; so that when that Semen became a p•rson (Cain) it became a guilty person, the guilt following the subject according to its Capacity: And so downward by Propagation to this day.