An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

^*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.

1. *Of this I have published a Disputation which proveth it.

§. 12. 1st, If I have a guilty and depraved Soul from my Parents, it is because I was once in them, ⟨p. 96⟩Virtually or Seminally as truly and naturally as I was in Adam: And had not the Guilt been theirs it had never been mi•e: And if it be mine because it was theirs, why not one part of theirs as well as another?

§. 12. 1st, If I have a guilty and deprayed Soul from my Parents, it is because I was once in them, ⟨p. 96⟩Virtually or Seminally as truly and naturally as I was in Adam: And had not the Guilt been theirs it had never been mi•e: And if it be mine because it was theirs, why not one part of theirs as well as another?

§. 13. It will be said, Because God so Covenanted with Adam that he should stand or fall for himself and his Posterity: I Answer, That there was any such Covenant that if he stood his Posterity should all stand, or be Confirmed and Saved, is more than ever I found in Scripture or can prove, or do believe: But that it would have been to the benefit of his Posterity I doubt not. And that his fall was to the Guilt and Corruption of his Posterity I doubt not; but (as I said) not without and beyond their natural Interest in him, and Derivation from him as the reason of it: And we were as much naturally in our next Parents: And the Covenant of Innocency and the Covenant of Grace do not so far differ as to exempt us from the Guilt of our next Parents sins: For the difference lieth not in this, That the first only made Death the due reward of all Sin, nor that the first did interest Children in the Guilt of their Parents sin: But in this, that the first made us Guilty without a Remedy; But the second giveth us a Remedy presently for Pardon and Recovery, and so our Guilt is not so full, because it is but a half Obligation having the Pardon annexed. The first Law said, [If thou sin thou shalt be filius mortis, and so shall those that are Propagated of thee.] The second Covenant saith, [For thy Original and Actual Sin death is thy due, but I give thee a Pardon and Remedying Grace procured by the Righteousness of Christ.] But note, That this Covenant pardoneth our Original