A26923:408
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.
§. 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.
§. 11. It seemeth to me a strange oversight in too many Divines who deny (or observe not) our Guilt of all the rest of our Parents
*Sins, while we were in their Loins, as well as of Adam's; seeing 1. there is that same reason of both, save what the change of the Covenant maketh (of which after.) And, 2. Scripture is so full and express about it.
- *Of this I have published a Disputation which proveth it.