A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

The Doctrine of our native impurity, and the damnable consequent thereof being thus established upon the Scripture rock, which will dash in pieces all errors that beat upon it: I shall proceed to some Conclusions deduceable thence from. As

THe Doctrine of our native impurity, and the damnable consequent thereof being thus established upon the Scripture rock, which will dash in peices all errours that beat upon it: I shall proceed to some Conclusions deduceable thence from. As

First, That position of some, though of different principles, is wholly contrariant to the word of God, that none are damned for original sin; For seeing this sin hath the same damnable guilt with it as actual sin hath, there is no more reason for the non-damnation of persons in one more then in another, neither can ⟨p. 537⟩we conceive God obliged to forgive one more then another; why then should it thus universally be acknowledged, that for actual sins God may and doth damn men, but not for original sin? It is true, when we speak of persons grown up, we cannot separate their actual sins and original, because original sin is always acting and conceiving, putting it self forth into many divers lusts; and thereupon we cannot say of any adult person, that he is damned merely for original sin, because to this original hath been superadded many actual transgressions; and thereupon all impenitent persons dying so, are condemned for both; yea their condemnation is enhanced thereby; for the desert of damnation by original and actual sin both, is greater then by original or actual severally. Seeing then many die in the guilt of their natural and actual uncleanness, it is an unsavoury Doctrine to affirm, that no man is damned for original sin. It is true, some men do dogmatize, that original sin in respect of the guilt of it, is universally taken off all, and that all mankind is put into a state of reconciliation by the second Adam, as they were into a state of wrath by the first; but this over-throweth the Doctrine of special election, and doth confound nature and grace together; yea it maketh Christ to have died in vain, of which more fully in its time. For the present, seeing that so many die unconverted in their state of unregeneracy, it must necessarily follow, that many are damned both for their original, and actual sin also. For shall the root be less damning, then the branches or fruit? actual sins demonstrate the effect and power or original sin, and the aggravation of the effect doth necessarily, aggravate the cause: As they said to Gideon desiring he should slay them,