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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.
But there is not a word in the Text to prove, 1. that children need no pardon for their guilty of Parents sins: 2. or that those that are not pardoned, being themselves unsanctified, (or if adult, live wickedly as their Parents did) shall not die for them: 3. or that such sins of Parents are not the cause of such guilt and pravity in the child, as that he is truly said to die for his own sin.
Sect. 43. XIII. Yet further methinks, to a conformable Doctor, the judgment of the Church of England in her Liturgy should not be insignificant; [Remember not Lord our offences, nor the offences of our fore-Fathers; neither take thou vengeance on our sins:] In what sense do men subscribe this, and daily use it? 1. Do they think that the Church meaneth only Adam's sin, by our [fore-Fathers]? 2. Or that by [not-remembering,] they mean [not-pardoning, and not punishing]? 3. Or do they think that they pray for the dead, in Purgatory, Hell, or Heaven? Or rather do they not imitate David, and the Jewish Church, and Ezra, Nehemiah, Daniel, &c. who confessed that they were punished for their Fathers sins?
Sect. 43. XIII. Yet further methinks, to a conformable Doctor, the judgment of the Church of England in her Liturgy should not be insignificant; [Remember not Lord our offences, nor the offences of our fore-Fathers; neither take thou vengeance on our sins:] In what sense do men subscribe this, and daily use it? 1. Do they think that the Church meaneth only Adam's sin, by our [fore-Fathers]? 2. Or that by [not-remembring,] they mean [not-pardoning, and notpunishing]? 3. Or do they think that they pray for the dead, in Purgatory, Hell, or Heaven? Or rather do they not imitate David, and the Jewish Church, and Ezra, Nehemiah, Daniel, &c. who confessed that they were punished for their Fathers sins?
Sect. 44. I conclude this subject with a second request to the Christian Reader, to pity and pray for the poor distressed Church of Christ, which is distracted and distressed thus, even by such as are most devoted to its service, through the great weakness of our judgments, and the unhappy passions and strivings that thence follow. Either I or this worthy person are mistaken, or else we differ not: When I look to the Person only, and not to the Evidence, nor to the Consenters, I have far greatest reason to suspect that I am liker to err than he: And if it prove