A27059:156
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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The consequence is undeniable. If they are capable of moral good, without actual moral volitions, so are they of moral evil: for there is eadem ratio. If a disposition to holy action be a moral good or virtue, then a disposition to evil actions is vice or moral evil.
Arg. 5. Infants have a privation of moral good: but a privation of moral good is a moral evil: go. infants have a moral evil. The major is proved, in that Adam's posterity ⟨p. 92⟩should have been born in original righteousness, or moral goodness, if he had not sinned: go. it is a privation of a moral good to be born without it, and not a mere negation. The minor is undeniable; privations belonging by reduction to the kind of that which they are a privation of: else a privation would be but a mere negation; that is, no privation at all.
Arg. 5. Infants have a privation of moral good: but a privation of moral good is a moral evil: go. infants have a moral evil. The major is proved, in that Adam's posterity ⟨p. 92⟩should have been born in original righteousness, or moral goodness, if he had not sinned: go. it is a privation of a moral good to be born without it, and not a meer negation. The minor is undeniable; privations belonging by reduction to the kind of that which they are a privation of: else a privation would be but a meer negation; that is, no privation at all.
Arg. 6. All that are the members of Jesus Christ, and saved by him, or for whom he died as a Redeemer, are (when existent) sinners: but infants are the members of Christ, and saved by him; he is their Redeemer, and died for them: go. they are (when existent) sinners: go. they have original sin. The major I prove from