A27059:128
Two disputations of original sin I. of original sin as from Adam, II. of…
Two disputations of original sin I. of original sin as from Adam, II. of original sin as from our nearer parents : written long ago for a more private use, and now published (with a preface) upon the invitation of Dr. T. Tully / by Richard Baxter.Two disputations of original sin I. of original sin as from Adam, II. of original sin as from our neerer parents : written long ago for a more private use, and now published (with a preface) upon the invitation of Dr. T. Tullie / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Robert Gibbs, 1675
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3. Some sins have a greater degree of sinfulness, or malignity in them than some others have: and so when we say that infants have original sin, we do not equal it in degree of malignity with the sins of the adult. Materially there is more malignity or opposition to God, in original, than in ordinary actual sins: but formally there is more culpability in many actual sins, than in original sin, because they are more fully voluntary, ⟨p. 77⟩and in our power. Yet the confirmed sinful habits of the adult, where original sin is strengthened by actual, are worst of all: so that as Accidens is said to be called Ens but by analogy of attribution, as having a less participation of the kind; and yet it is truly Ens: so the original sin of infants is called sin by such an analogy, as having a less participation of the common nature of sin, in the form and culpability.
4. In such a degree as infants are subjects of Christ's Kingdom, in such a degree also their original pravity is properly sin.
5. In such a degree as their Parents righteousness would have been imputable to them, if none of their Ancestors from the creation had sinned; and as their own inherent holiness is imputable to the sanctified infants as a moral good: in such a degree also is their progenitors sin imputed to them, and their original pravity imputed to them as a moral evil.