A26923:407
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.
§. 8. God doth not impute Adam's1 Sin to us because he will do it, without any real participation of ours; no nor beyond our true natural participation, but according to it: Otherwise God should have made us sinners, merely because he •ould do so, and not Adam.
§. 8. God doth not impute Adam's1 Sin to us because he will do it, without any real participation of ours; no nor beyond our true natural participation, but according to it: Otherwise God should have made us sinners, meerly because he •ould do so, and not Adam.
- 1Dr. Twice frequently well openeth this.Dr. Twisse frequently well openeth this.
§. 9. We receive our Original Guilt and Pravity immediately from our next Parents, and but remotely from Adam: It could never have come to us but through them from whom we receive our Nature, from them we receive the guilt and pravity of our Nature.
§. 10. Therefore thus far at least our next Parents communicate Guilt and Pravity to us, and not Adam only: In which we see that God's Imputation goeth along with real Natural Participation.