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A39896	An essay of original righteousness and conveyed sin wherein the question is sightly stated, the latent venome of some of Dr. Jeremiah Tayler's heretical assertions detected, and accurately impugn'd. By [J.] Ford gentlemen.	Ford, John, Mayor of Bath.	1657 (1657)	Wing F1464; ESTC R222666	41,888	180

and dreams leading to confusion death and perdi●ion dayly cryed up and entertain'd the Lords Prayer Apostles Creed all Sacraments and the 39. Articles antiquated and contemned pernitious doctrines in faith hourly accruing together with an inundation of vices and corrupted manners no faith cut fancy and opinion no hop● but presumption no charity but lust no God but an Idol as S. Au● said Ep. 64. Homini extra Ecclesiam Religio sua est cultus phantasinatum suorum aut error suus est De●s suus Thus leaving the Dr. Tayl to the reclaiming and detestation of his confused doctrine I come to my main intendment CHAP. II. Of the dismall state of man of his Fall ADam the great Representative of Mankinde and the beginner of a temporal happy life in the first instance of his Creation amongst many other graces and singular endowments did receive from God Original righteousness which is not the same distributive justice one of the cardinal vertues neither that by which we are justified which is called the grace of remission of sins But this Original Justice in Adam is a certain kinde of rectitude in the whole man viz. of the body to the soule and of the sensitive appetite to reason meant by the Ecclesiast in these words Fecit Deus hominem rectum God made man upright and because this rare gift of righteousnesse has been receiv'd by Adam from God and was to be transmitted by original propagation to Adams Posterity if he had not sinned it s fitly called original By this original justice mans will was more firmly fastned to God then by grace for this unites us to our final end as a supernatural good but original righteousness unites to the same as both convenient and delectable and by this rectitude reason became subject to God the inferiour faculties to reason and the body to the soule the first subjection being the cause of the second and third for reason remained subject to God all the inferiour faculties must also remain subject which cannot be unlesse grace be conjoyn'd with original justice and this subjection of the body to the soule and of inferiour faculties to the superiour could not be a natural gift but rather a supernatural otherwise it would have remained in man after his fall whereas in damn'd soules all natural gifts doth still remaine By this supernatural gift superinduc'd Adam had a title and right to heaven which with nature was to be transfused to poste●ity if sin had not hindred it but the sin of Adam destroyed his original righteousnesse and lost it to us for ever it corrupted his nature and ours too and the consequent and saddest of all is by it we are borne enemies of God sons of wrath and heirs of eternall damnation carrying and deriving stil a natural pronesse afomes or nest of sin imprinted in our soules despoyled and devested by way of punishment of all the supernatural assistances which God put into our nature being left naked and in pure naturalls depriv'd of any title to heaven that is it hath in it neither strength to live a supernatural life nor title to a heavenly so as the sin which was committed in the original of mankinde by our first parent and which had a sad influence upon all his posterity brought upon Adam and us all that God threatned and no more which is eternal and temporal death with the proper effects and affections of mortality and thus we are formally and properly made sinners by Adam and in him by interpretation we all have sinned and God does truly and justly impute his to us to make us as guilty as he that did it and as much punished and liable to eternal damnation Whereas all the supernatural gifts and eudowments conferr'd on Adam were not conferr'd on him as he was an individual person but as he was a publick representative and common head of all humane nature to be transfused to posterity by a continual series of seminal generation whence original justice comes rightly so to be called neither Adam became obliged to transmit those preternatural gifts to his children by any precept or covenant other then by the same of not eating of the forbidden fruit for we are bound by no other precept to preserve grace then by the same by which we are obliged to observe Gods Law because the Author of nature had power to oblige all mankinde in Adam the f●●st original and head thereof so as that he prevariting all his posterity should likewise be comprehended both in the sin and guilt thereof now the reason of original sin begins to appear But whereas Adam then has been not only all humane nature but also the seed and seminal root thereof in whose loyns all mankinde as in the original head fountain and seminary were comprehended involv'd and included though not formally yet originally radically representatively and seminally by his transgression of the first commandement impos'd under inevitable paine of eternal temporal death brought on himselfe and all mankinde both the guilt of sin and death as S. Aug. hyp art 2. saith Cum Adam peccavit natura in illo tota peccavit When Adam sinned in him all nature likewise have sinned the reason is because that sin was voluntary in order to us Adams posterity whereas for the preservatio● of that original righteousnesse bes●owed upon all humane nature Adams will in a manner was accounted and reputed the will of all mankinde as a Kings will is accounted the will of the whole Kingdom and the will of a Civil Magistrate the will of all the Citizens manifestly expressed by Saint Paul in those words in quo omnes peccaverunt which words have their reference to the man not to the sin for the greek word is the masculine gender as S. Austust understood it lib. de peccatorum merit is cap. 10. his reason is Quia ait omnes homines fuerunt ille unus homo viz. Adam quod intellige non formaliter sed originaliter radicaliter seminaliter representativè quia viz. omnes homines in illo primo homine quasi radice parente principio suo contenti censi comprehensi fuerunt nam quidquid Adam fecit omnes ejus posteri fecisse censentur sicut Rex representat regnum Magistratus Civitatem Of this judgement was Origines Chrysost. Theoph. Occumen and for the most part all the Latine and Greek Fathers If you 'l ask why God was pleas'd that if Adam should sin we his posterity should contract the guilt of his sin I answer that it was done by the occult judgement and decree of God according to S. Aug. l. 5. contra Julia c. 3. S. Bernard Serm. ● de Dominica post oct. Epiphan. And if further you 'l ask why God did place our merit and demerit in the hand and will of Adam to the prejudice as it were of his dominion and power by which he could both doe and decree what ever he pleased I answer with

Saviour Christ by whose superabundant grace his faithfull children are cleansed from all sins original and actuall and rendred far more exceeding gratious and glorious then otherwis● they should have been Both which effects S. Paul teacheth Rom. 8. v. 12 13 14. concluding this first pol● with an Appendix that Ada● wa● a figure of Christ to come signifying that as by the sin of Adam we all dyed so by the grace of Christ all his children doe live Touching the other effect viz. abundance of grace by Christ he addeth the great difference saying But not as the offence so also the gif● For if by the one m●n● died much more the grace of God and the gift in the grace of one man Jesus Christ hath abounded upon many v. 15. And not as by one sin s● also the gift for judgement 〈…〉 of one ●●condemnation but grace 〈◊〉 of m●●y offe●ces●● justification v. 〈◊〉 For if 〈◊〉 the ●●●ence of one death reigned by one much more they that receive the abundance of grace and of the donation of justice 〈◊〉 shall reign in life by one Jesus vers. 17. Thus by S. Pauls Doctrine in that place and ver. 18 19. is verified that which the ●ue Church so solemnly singeth in the great Festivity of our redemption O certe necessarium Adae peccacatum quod Christs mirt● deletum est And O 〈…〉 culpa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●autum meritum hab●re ●re●dempt●rem Whereto agree many other passages in the rest of S. Paul● Doctrine and the same is brie●ly comprised in that which S. John Baptist denounc'd of our blessed Saviour saying Behold the Lamb of God behold him that taketh away the sin of the world That is principally Christ came to take away the general sin which being actual in Adam is original in the whole world and therefore is call'd the sin of the world And the same is the general doctrine of S. John Apost. Evangelist saying If wee walk in the light as God also is in the light and the blood of Jesus his son cleanseth us from all sin first from original then also from actual You may find moreover in S. Luke 10. v. 30. all mankinde devested of grace and wounded in natural faculties by Adams fall for our Saviour in a Parable saith How a certain man went down from Jerusalem unto Jericho and fell among the 〈◊〉 who spoiled him and giving him wounds went away leaving him halfe dead Of no particular man can this Parable be so properly expounded as of all mankinde in general contained in Adam our first Parent who being indued with all necessary gifts narural and supernatural going from Gods commandement yeelded to false imaginations of bettering his state as it were descending from Jerusalem the Vision of peace to Jericho signifying the Moon which is unconstant and mutable fell among theeves the Devils who spoyled and wounded him and left him halfe dead for Adam by sinning and all men in him were spoyled of original justice and all supernatural graces and wounded in natural powers of understanding and f●e●will● not wholly deprived of all but spoyled of the best part and wounded in the rest spiritually dead and sub●ect both to temporal and eternal death 〈…〉 relicto le●t halfe dead and halfe alive though left without help by the Priest and Levi●e the Sacrifices and other Ministeries The result of all is this Original sin is no inherent substantial thing in man but a privation of original justice and after the laver of Regeneration and Justification by Baptism sin properly so called is no longer remaining in the regenerate yet still there remaines an inclination unto sin called concupiscence out of which sin notwithstanding cannot be produced but by our negligence and free consent All this is affirmed by many Saints and especially by S. Basil in oratione quod Deus non sit Author malorum S. Epiphanius S. Ambrose Cyprian S. Hierom S. Hilarius S. John Chrysostom c. This Doctrine was decreed in severall general Councels as hereafter shall appear But that Infants were holy from their mothers wombe and may be saved without Baptism and that therefore there is no necessity of the Laver of Regeneraon to wash away original sin was the exprest heresie of Pelagi●s this day held forth boldly though covertly by Dr. Tayler which perverse Doctrine was condemned by several Councels First in the East at the first Palestine Councel it was solemnly condemn'd After in the West in Efrick in the Milevit●● Councel it was decreed Can. 2 That whosoever deny Baptism to new-borne Infants or aver that they contract not Original staine and sin from Adam which needeth a Regeneration Anathe●ia sit In the 〈◊〉 Councel turned out of Greec● 〈…〉 Pisanus and in the first Constantinople Councel in Simbolo This was decreed in the fourth Councel of Carthage where there met 217. Prelates and most learned Doctors And in the fifth Constantinople Councel Zoara S●us Monachus Severus An●icher Petrus Antichenus and Antymus were as Parabaptists condemned You may read in the sixth Tolletan Councel Can. 2. of the three Divine persons onely the Son of God became man for the Redemption of mankind from the debt of sin originally contracted from Adams inobedience In the second Araus●c●n Councel in France Can. 2. you have what doth follow If any man shall hold that Adams sin hurted him alone and not his Posterity or that only it brought corporal 〈◊〉 not eternal death which is 〈◊〉 the cause of temporal death upon all mankind this man doth great in justice to God and downright contradicts the Apostle S Paul who teacheth that by one man sin came into the world and by sin death and so death was derived to all men I● the Maguntine Councel in Germany Can. 5. we read thus The sin of our first Parent has been conveyed to all men by seminal propagation and draweth along with it punishment so as all men are guilty of Gods enmity and eternal damnation and all are become prone to sin All which Decrees were renewed in the two last general Councels Florentinum Tridentinum which in literis vniouis teacheth thus The soules of those that departed in actual or original sin only doth descend into hell there to be punished though not all alike Therefore neither our Dr. Tayler nor the Anabaptists can without impudent temerity renew or maintain this most pernicious venom of Heresie so often and so solemnly condemned From this uniform ancient Doctrine of the Primitive Fathers Saints and holy Doctors is discover'd that manifest grosse error of Doctor Tayler who doth acknowledge no inl●●●ent sin but that which is com●●tted by a real proper consent of the will which is such another pitiful mistake as that this word original sin was not used or mentioned in Scripture or Fathers before by S. Augustine invented which is notoriously false whereas this is such another meer illusion as the same of the Arians who denied absolutely the word homusion to be found in