A26923:417
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.
§. 17. He that seeth the universal inclination of Mankind to Evil even in their Childhood, and their backwardness to Good, even that Evil and that Good which Nature it self assureth us are such, must needs believe Original Pravity, or else think hardly of God's Work.
§. 18. He that seeth still that Drunkenness, Gluttony, Lust, &c. do vitiate both the Soul and Bodily Temperament of the Sinner, and how frequently a diseased, distempered Body, inclining Men to particular Vices, and an extraordinarily vitiated Soul, is in their Children the plain fruit of the Parents Sin, may the easilier believe that we drew down Pravity from Adam also, when we derive so much from nearest Parents.
§. 19. And they that consider, that Mans Soul being made Holy, for God, this unholiness is not only a Negation but a Privation, not of Sensitive and Natural only, but of Moral Rectitude, will not deny but that the name of Sin or Moral Pravity belongeth to it.
§. 20. And they that consider, that Parents Cause not Children as an Artificer maketh an Engine, but by Generation, which is a Communication ⟨p. 87⟩