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

2. That place will overthrow the Socinians themselves also; For they grant, That by Adam's sin, death though otherwise natural, is now made necessary and penal, insomuch that we actually die, because of Adam's disobedience. And

2. That place will overthrow the Socinians themselves also; For they grant, That by Adam's sinne, death though otherwise natural, is now made necessary and penal, insomuch that we actually die, because of Adam's disobedience. And

3. That place in Ezekiel, it is commonly interpreted thus, The child shall not bear the Fathers sin, viz. if he be innocent, and not guilty of it, as well as his Father. I do not discuss, whether this be the full interpretation of that place: But if it be so, then our punishment, because of Adam, hath no injustice in it, because by that actual transgression of Adam, we are made sinners, as well as he, and so have in our selves, though new born, a just desert of all the wages of sin. The Infant dying because of that particular inherent sin, which is in him, so that it is both Adams and his own, in several respects.

3. That place in Ezekiel, it is commonly interpreted thus, The child shall not bear the Fathers siane, viz. if he be innocent, and not guilty of it, as well as his Father. I do not discuss, whether this be the full interpretation of that place: But if it be so, then our punishment, because of Adam, hath no injustice in it, because by that actual transgression of Adam, we are made sinners, as well as he, and so have in our selves, though new born, a just desert of all the wages of sin. The Infant dying because of that particular inherent sin, which is in him, so that it is both Adams and his own, in several respects.

In the second place, to answer this Argument, take notice, That though it be of the will of God, that Adams sin is made ours, for if he pleased, he might have done otherwise; Yet we are not to say as the Remonstrants, That God imputeth this sin to mankind, merely because he will, as if the thing in it self were indifferent: Even as God appointed things should be unclean in the Old Testament merely and solely from his will, because he had appointed so, for it is from his Justice also, such is the hatred of God against sin, and withal dealing with Adam according to the Covenant of works, the curse of that, if violated, would descend from parents to children, as appeareth in Moses his curses, pronounced against those that should not continue in the Law, it was to them and their children. Therefore some learned men expound that passage of Gods saying, The child shall not die for the iniquity of his Father, which is also mentioned