The practical divinity of the papists discovered to be destructive of Christianity and mens…

Sect. 12. Finally, natural Corruption, after Baptism, has nothing in it that can be charged with sin, no, not in wicked men, who afterwards by mortal sin, are quite destitute of grace. So that by their doctrine, a fixed averseness and contrariety to God and holiness, an habitual enmity against him, ^(*)a propenseness to all ungodliness and unrighteousness, is no sin; an inward temper and disposition, though it be most Impious, Atheistical, Rebellious, Filthy, Treacherous, and Bloody, has no sin in it; an inclination to deny God, to speak all evil of him, to depose him, to advance Lusts and the Devil before him; an inclination to Adulteries and beastly uncleanness, to murder and barbarous cruelty, to the most prodigious wickedness against God or man, is no sin. Yea, though it be not transient, but constant and habitual, though it be strong and impetuous; though this corruption be reigning not subdued or mortified; though it be active and fruitful in all the powers of the soul; though it hurry the lower faculties into rebellious commotions, and follow the superior with frequent and strong impulses, and exert its power and malignancy both in thoughts and affections; yet if the inward motions have not consent, there is no more sin in their acts, than in their principles.

Sect. 12. Finally, natural Corruption, after Baptism, has nothing in it that can be charged with sin, no, not in wicked men, who afterwards by mortal sin, are quite destitute of grace. So that by their doctrine, a fixed averseness and contrariety to God and holiness, an habitual enmity against him, ^(*)a propensness to all ungodliness and unrighteousness, is no sin; an inward temper and disposition, though it be most Impious, Atheistical, Rebellious, Filthy, Treacherous, and Bloody, has no sin in it; an inclination to deny God, to speak all evil of him, to depose him, to advance Lusts and the Devil before him; an inclination to Adulteries and beastly uncleanness, to murder and barbarous cruelty, to the most prodigious wickedness against God or man, is no sin. Yea, though it be not transient, but constant and habitual, though it be strong and impetuous; though this corruption be reigning not subdued or mortified; though it be active and fruitful in all the powers of the soul; though it hurry the lower faculties into rebellious commotions, and follow the superiour with frequent and strong impulses, and exert its power and malignancy both in thoughts and affections; yet if the inward motions have not consent, there is no more sin in their acts, than in their principles.