A27059:195
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.
Answ. Nor any thing that is acquired, and not natural.
Obj. Godliness is not now conveyed by nature: go. it should not have been so then.
Answ. I deny the consequence: 1. Because that holiness that was natural then, is supernatural now. You may propagate eye-sight to your children because it is natural: but you can neither restore your own, nor theirs, when it is put out, without a supernatural power. 2. Because though Adam was our natural head and root, and so had power to hold or lose the grace which he had received for himself and us, yet when it came to the work of our restoration, he being utterly insufficient to recover himself or us, the work is put into another hand, and Jesus Christ ⟨p. 112⟩the second Adam is now our Root and Head; and as he purchased all, so all our mercies are at his disposal, and he giveth them out as he seeth meet: and go. as he gave Adam pardon and holiness for himself, so will he give to all his members for themselves; himself being still the treasury of his Church, and keeping the keys of life in his own hands. 3. Sanctification is imperfect in this life, and go. leaving some corruption, no wonder if that be propagated by the best. 4. But yet as Adam should have conveyed an innocent holy nature to his children if he had not lost it; even a legal righteousness, such as he had himself: so now (though generation do it not, yet) Christ in his Gospel Covenant hath made over a Gospel Righteousness to the infants of the sanctified, (who devote themselves and their children unto God in the Baptismal Covenant): so that as posterity is unhappy through their first Parents sin, so children may recover happiness from Christ by means of their Parents faith and holiness, and dedicating them to God in Christ.