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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.
Sect. 27. XIX. He that saith that children have no guilt of the sins of any Parents since Adam, doth by consequence say that ⟨p. 21⟩God neither ever did, or will do, or justly can punish any child in the least degree, positively or privatively, for any such Parents sin: But he that dare so say, is bolder and blinder than I would have any wise and holy Teachers of Christ's Flocks to be.
Sect. 28. XX. Holy men in Scripture were used in their sufferings to confess and lament the sins of their fore-fathers as the cause; as I have after cited out of the Psalms, Ezra, Nehem. Daniel, &c.
Sect. 29. By this, and what followeth, I have rendered to the Reader a true account and reason of my (supposed dangerous) opinion. But nothing maketh me more wonder at my learned and worthy accuser, than his, O caecos ante Theologos, quicunque unquam fuistis! I had almost said, It is more modest for me to say, that my unacquaintedness with Grammar maketh me (here) not understand him, than to suspect that so Learned an Academical Doctor, among so many Learned men and Libraries, can possibly mean as his words seem to import. But modesty must not blind us: And yet I am loth here to be tempted to waste so much of my little time to the wearying of my self and the Reader, as the recital of the words of so many Divines, as concur with me in this opinion, would require: but a taste may serve to cure his admiration, ⟨p. 22⟩and, vindicate Divines from his reproach.
Sect. 29. By this, and what followeth, I have rendred to the Reader a true account and reason of my (supposed dangerous) opinion. But nothing maketh me more wonder at my learned and worthy accuser, than his, O caecos ante Theologos, quicunque unquam fuistis! I had almost said, It is more modest for me to say, that my unacquaintedness with Grammar maketh me (here) not understand him, than to suspect that so Learned an Academical Doctor, among so many Learned men and Libraries, can possibly mean as his words seem to import. But modesty must not blind us: And yet I am loth here to be tempted to waste so much of my little time to the wearying of my self and the Reader, as the recital of the words of so many Divines, as concurr with me in this opinion, would require: but a taste may serve to cure his admiration,