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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
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.
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.
6. We do not assert that any of the adult are damned for original sin alone; nor that their original sin is a remediless evil: but that a remedy is provided, and means appointed for men to use, in order to their deliverance from the guilt and pravity; which if they refuse, they lie under a double guilt.
7. Original sin, and the misery deserved and due to the subject, is a remediable evil in infants themselves: As their Parents have propagated a sinful guilty nature to them, so if their Parents will unfeignedly dedicate them to Christ, and offer and engage them to God in the holy Covenant, which Baptism is the sign and seal of, they shall be accepted by God, according to the tenor of his promise.
7. Original sin, and the misery deserved and due to the subject, is a remediable evil in infants themselves: As their Parents have propagated a sinful guilty nature to them, so if their Parents will unfeignedly dedicate them to Christ, and offer and engage them to God in the holy Covenant, which Baptisme is the sign and seal of, they shall be accepted by God, according to the tenor of his promise.