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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.
7. And again I say, that if the very guilt and corruption derived from Adam, had not been my next Parents first, it had never been mine, no more than my nature: For I had it not immediately from Adam, but from them. And if I had that as theirs first, I must by the same reason have more of theirs: And who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? And David's Mother is said to conceive him in sin, Psal. 51.
8. Let it be noted for answer to the objections, from Ezek. 18. &c. 1. That there is by the Covenant of Grace, a pardon with right to Christ and Life, freely given to all the faithful and their infant-seed, as by them (having full power thereto) in Covenant given up to Christ: Now, no one is damned for pardoned sins. The infant is at once guilty of Adam's and his Parents sin; and at once his nature receiveth pravity from both, (but immediately only by the immediate Parents;) and at once both are pardoned to him, and this pardon solemnly ⟨p. 38⟩sealed and delivered in Baptism. Therefore well may God say to the pardoned, to the penitent, and to the innocent, that he shall not die for his Parents sins, (no, not for Adam's.) 2. For the Text speaketh to the adult, and to men that thought themselves innocent, and that they suffered for their Parents sins, and not their own: And God assureth them, 1. that if they are innocent, they shall not die; 2. yea, if they be repenting persons, and pardoned, and obedient evangelically, hating all the sins of their wicked Parents, they shall live. 3. yea, this is true of their children also for their sakes. But this is not because the Law never judged them guilty, and worthy of death; but because the Grace of Christ forgiveth it: else the Text would exempt all infants from the guilty of death, for Adam's sin.