A30247:379
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.
IN the third place, Adam's sin imputed to us, is not all our original sin; for this is also affirmed by many, That Adam's actual transgression is made every mans sin; So that there is but that one original sin common to all, and every one that is born hath not a particular proper original sin to himself. This opinion, they think, is only able to withstand those strong Objections, that are brought against the imputability of any thing inherent in us, as truly and properly sin, while we are Infants, and cannot put forth any acts of reason or will; Yea hereby they say, that intricate and perplexed discourse about the propagation of original sin, will be wholly needless; so that they conclude on this opinion, as labouring with the least inconveniences and difficulties. Their Assertion is, That Adam's actual sin is made ours by imputation, and that is all the original sin we have, an Infant new born having nothing in it, that is truly and properly a sin, it hath (they say) many things that have rationem poenae, but not culpae, a proneness to sin, when it groweth up, is not a sin, but a punishment; it is the effect of original sin, not the sin it self.
IN the third place, Adam's sinne imputed to us, is not all our original sinne; for this is also affirmed by many, That Adam's actual transgression is made every mans sinne; So that there is but that one original sinne common to all, and every one that is born hath not a particular proper original sinne to himself. This opinion, they think, is only able to withstand those strong Objections, that are brought against the imputability of any thing inherent in us, as truly and properly sinne, while we are Infants, and cannot put forth any acts of reason or will; Yea hereby they say, that intricate and perplexed discourse about the propagation of original sinne, will be wholly needless; so that they conclude on this opinion, as labouring with the least inconveniencies and difficulties. Their Assertion is, That Adam's actual sinne is made ours by imputation, and that is all the original sinne we have, an Infant new born having nothing in it, that is truly and properly a sinne, it hath (they say) many things that have rationem poenae, but not culpae, a proneness to sinne, when it groweth up, is not a sinne, but a punishment; it is the effect of original sinne, not the sin it self.