A69076:620
A treatise of Christian religion
A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity. By T.C.A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole bodie and substance of diunintie. By T.C.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1616
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.
A. It is called Original sin, which is a sin arising from the former, whereof all the posterity of Adam are equally guilty; and whereby all the powers of the soul and body being infected, we are made drudges and slaves of sin.
A. It is called Originall sinne, which is a sinne arising from the former, whereof all the posterity of Adam are equally guiltie; and whereby all the powers of the soule and body being infected, we are made drudges and slaues of sinne.
Q. Seeing by the Law sin is, and the Law was not before Moses; it seems, that there is no sin until Moses?
Q. Seeing by the Law sinne is, and the Law was not before Moses; it seemes, that there is no sinne vntill Moses?
A. When it is said, the Law was not before Moses, it is to be understood of the written Law in the tables of stone by the finger of God; and other laws ceremonial and political, written by Moses, at the commandment 1of God: for otherwise the law (the ceremonial excepted) was written in the heart of man, and after the decay thereof (through sin) was taught by those to whom that belonged, from the fall, unto Moses.
A. When it is said, the Law was not before Moses, it is to be vnderstood of the written Law in the tables of stone by the finger of God; and other lawes ceremoniall and politicall, written by Moses, at the commandement 1of God: for otherwise the law (the ceremoniall excepted) was written in the heart of man, and after the decay thereof (through sin) was taught by those to whom that belonged, from the fall, vnto Moses.