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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
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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,
1. The Old Man, Eph. 4.22. It is said to be the Old man, not that it is weak, as Old men are, but for its long standing, and because of its deformity. In old age the fair blossoms of Beauty fall; so Original sin is the Old man, because it hath withered our Beauty, and made us deformed in God's Eye.
1. The Old Man, Eph. 4.22. It is said to be the Old man, not that it is weak, as Old men are, but for its long standing, and because of its deformity. In old age the fair blossoms of Beuty fall; so Original sin is the Old man, because it hath withered our Beauty, and made us deformed in God's Eye.
2. Original Concupiscence is called the Law of sin, Rom. 7.25. Original sin hath vim coactivam, the power of a Law. A Law binds the Subject to Allegiance. Men must needs do what sin will have them, when they have both the love of sin to draw them, and the law of sin to force them. In Original sin there is something privative, and something positive.