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

Thirdly, There are yet some who deservedly are reputed as more honourable for learning and orthodoxy then the former, who though they hold original sin, and Gods special election of some persons to eternal glory, do yet withal maintain a possibility of salvation to every one lying in the corrupt mass of mankind. Thus Crocius (Duod•c. Dissert. Dissert. 1a. de peccato origin.) although he denieth the Huberian way of assuming all men into a state of favour, so that no man is obnoxious to damnation by original sin, yet affirmeth, That none is necessarily damned for it, without the accession of new sins, and that therefore there is a way of possibility of salvation for every one. This opinion hath many learned Abettors, but if it be throughly pursued, it must either fall into the old known orthodox way, or empty it self into the Arminian channel. Yea it seemeth to be of so brittle subtlety, that it doth not avoid any of those inconven•ercies, which they labour to do; neither doth it practically give any comfort to a man rationally doubting in his conscience about his interest in Christs death, or stir up and provoke to obedience unto those Commands and Exhortations that are pressed upon us. But this Controversy belongeth not so properly to my subject.

Thirdly, There are yet some who deservedly are reputed as more honourable for learning and orthodoxy then the former, who though they hold original sinne, and Gods special election of some persons to eternal glory, do yet withall maintain a possibility of salvation to every one lying in the corrupt masse of mankind. Thus Crocius (Duod•c. Dissert. Dissert. 1a. de peccato origin.) although he denieth the Huberian way of assuming all men into a state of favour, so that no man is obnoxious to damnation by original sinne, yet affirmeth, That none is necessarily damned for it, without the accession of new sins, and that therefore there is a way of possibility of salvation for every one. This opinion hath many learned Abettors, but if it be throughly pursued, it must either fall into the old known orthodox way, or empty it self into the Arminian chanel. Yea it seemeth to be of so brittle subtilty, that it doth not avoid any of those inconven•ercies, which they labour to do; neither doth it practically give any comfort to a man rationally doubting in his conscience about his interest in Christs death, or stirre up and provoke to obedience unto those Commands and Exhortations that are pressed upon us. But this Controversie belongeth not so properly to my subject.