So likewise touching Original Sin, there were that taught, that it is not inherent in each particular man born of Adam, but that Adams personal sin is imputed only: That the propagation of sin is not general, Mary being conceived without Original sin: That the punishment of it is not any sensible smart, or positive evil, but privative only; and that therefore there is a third place, neither Hell, nor Heaven, named, Limbus Puerorum; which is a place, whereas some think, they who are condemned thither, though they be excluded from the Kingdom of Heaven, and all possibility of ever coming thither, yet are in a state of natural happiness, and do enjoy the sweet content of Eternal Life. These Pelagian Heresies were taught in the Church of God, but they were not the Doctrines of the Church, being condemned, rejected and refuted, ⟨p. 377⟩as contrary to the Christian Verity, by many worthy members and guides of the Church: who as they never received these parts of false Doctrine: So likewise the Church wherein they lived, neither know, nor approved that distinction and difference of venial and mortal sins, which the Romanists now Teach, nor power of nature to do the works of the Law according to the substance of the things commanded, though not according to the intention of the Law-giver to love God above all, and to do acti••s morally good, or not sinful, without concurrence of special Grace, nor election and reprobation depending on the foresight of something in us positive or privative; nor merit of congruence and condignity; nor works of supererogation; nor counsels of perfection, as they now teach; nor justification by perfection of inherent qualities; nor uncertainty of Grace; nor seven Sacraments properly so named, nor local presence; nor Transubstantiation; nor oral manducation of the body of Christ, nor real sacrificing of it for the quick and the dead: nor remission of sins after this Life; nor tormenting of the souls of men dying in the state of Salvation in a part of Hell, hundreds of years, by Devils in corporal fire (out of which, prayer should deliver •hem) nor that the Saints hear our Prayers, •ow or are acquainted with our particular wants: nor the gross idolatry in those times committed, and intolerable abuses found in the number, fashion, and worship of their images: nor their absolution, as now they define it:
So likewise touching Original Sin, there were that taught, that it is not inherent in each particular man born of Adam, but that Adams personal sin is imputed onely: That the propagation of sin is not general, Mary being conceived without Original sin: That the punishment of it is not any sensible smart, or positive evil, but privative onely; and that therefore there is a third place, neither Hell, nor Heaven, named, Limbus Puerorum; which is a place, whereas some think, they who are cond•mned thither, though they be excluded from the Kingdom of Heaven, and all possibility of ever coming thither, yet are in a state of natural happiness, and do enjoy the sweet content of Eternal Life. These Pelagian Heresies were taught in the Church of God, but they were not the Doctrines of the Chu•ch, being condemned, rejected and refuted, ⟨p. 377⟩as contrary to the Christian Verity, by many worthy members and guides of the Church: who as they never received these parts of false Doctrine: So likewise the Church wherein they lived, neither know, nor approved that distinction and difference of venial and mortal sins, which the Romanists now Teach, nor power of nature to do the works of the Law according to the substance of the things commanded, though not according to the intention of the Law-giver to love God above all, and to do acti••s morally good, or not sinful, without concurrence of special Grace, nor election and reprobation depending on the foresight of something in us positive or privative; nor merit of congruence and condignity; nor works of supererogation; nor counsels of perfection, as they now teach; nor justification by perfection of inherent qualities; nor uncertainty of Grace; nor seven Sacraments properly so named, nor local presence; nor Transubstantiation; nor •rall manducation of the body of Christ, nor real sacrificing of it for the quick and the dead: nor remission of sins after this Life; nor tormenting of the souls of men dying in the state of Salvation in a part of Hell, hundreds of years, by Divels in corporal fire (out of which, prayer should deliver •hem) nor that the Saints hear our Prayers, •ow or are acquainted with our particular wants: nor the gross idolatry in those times committed, and intollerable abuses found in the number, fashion, and worship of their images: nor their absolution, as now they define it:
