A30247:327
A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is
A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is, by pregnant texts of Scripture vindicated from false glosses / by Anthony Burgess.
London : s.n., 1658
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SECT. IV.
AS for the other two particulars of Gods Injustice and Cruelty, supposed to be in the depriving of us of that original Righteousness, we may speak more hereafter: But for the present, this may stop the mouth of any caviller, though it be as wide as a Sepulchre.
1. That as God was not necessitated to create man, neither did he make man out of need of him, so when he had made him, he being supreme Lord and Sovereign, might deal with him upon what terms he pleased: It pleased him therefore to covenant with Adam not as a single person, but as a common head and universal person, as appeareth Rom. 5. by the collation that is made between the first Adam, and the second Adam, as two universal principles.
Therefore secondly, God taking such a way, all the good Adam should have had upon his continuance in obedience, would not have been in himself only, but to all his posterity Then in him, we had all obeyed, By his obedience we had been all made righteous, and by him life would have entered into the world; so that it's great Justice in God, to transmit all the evils of Adams transgression, to his posterity, who would have communicated all the good promised to them upon his obedience. And thus we have answered that Objection, which is brought against the Naturality of it.