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Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Of communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...Of communion with God the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...
Oxford: printed by A. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1657
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Ans. There are two things in Original sin; 1. Guilt of the §. 16 first sin, which is imputed to us, we all sinned in him, [Greek or Hebrew], Ro. 5. 12. whether we render it Relatively in whom, or Illatively, being all have sinned, all is one: that one sin, is the sin of us all, omnes eramus unus ille homo: we were all in Covenant with him; He was not only a natural head, but also a federal head unto us; as Christ is to Believers (Rom. 5. 17. 1 Cor. 15. 22.) so was he to us all. and his Transgression of that Covenant is reckoned to us.
Ans. There are two things in Originall sinne; 1. Guilt of the §. 16 first sinne, which is imputed to us, we all sinned in him, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Ro. 5. 12. whether we render it Relatively in whom, or Illatively, being all have sinned, all is one: that one sinne, is the sinne of us all, omnes eramus unus ille homo: we were all in Covenant with him; He was not only a naturall head, but also a federall head unto us; as Christ is to Believers (Rom. 5. 17. 1 Cor. 15. 22.) so was he to us all. and his Transgression of that Covenant is reckoned to us.
2ly There is the derivation of a polluted, corrupted nature §. 17 from him; lWho can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? that which is borne of the flesh is flesh, and nothing else; whose wisdom and mind is corrupted also. a polluted fountain, will have polluted streams. The first person corrupted nature, and that nature corrupts all persons following; now from both these was Christ most free. He was never federally in Adam; and so not liable to the imputation of his sin on that account. It is true, that sin was