A65285:622
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Quest. How is Adam's sin made ours?
Resp. 1. By Imputation. The Pelagians of old held that Adam's Transgression is hurtful to Posterity by Imitation only, not by Imputation. But the Text confutes that, [Greek or Hebrew] ▪ in whom all have sinned.
Resp. 1. By Imputation. The Pelagians of old held that Adam's Transgression is hurtful to Posterity by Imitation only, not by Imputation. But the Text confutes that, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 ▪ in whom all have sinned.
2. Adam's sin is ours by Propagation. Not only is the guilt of Adam's sin imputed to us, but the pravity and corruption of his Nature is derived to us, as Poison is carried from the Fountain to the Cistern. This is that which we call Original Sin; Psal. 51.5. In sin did my mother conceive me. Adam's Leprosy cleaves to us, as Naaman's Leprosy did cleave to Gehazi, 2 Kings 5.27. This Original Concupiscence is called,