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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

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

as a proposition of faith For whatsoever the Church believeth as a proposition of faith is upon this ground that Christ taught it as such unto the Church he planted himself and so left it in trust to be by it delivered over to the next age And the reason why the present Church believeth any proposition to be of faith is because the immediate preceding Church of the age before delivered it as such and so you may derive it on from age to age untill you come to the Apostles and Christ For to have any false proposition of faith admitted into the Church in any age doth suppose that all they of that age must unanimously conspire to deceive their children telling them that they were taught by their Fathers to believe as of faith some proposition which indeed was not which being impossible as it will evidently appear to any prudent person that shall reasonably ponder the matter that so many men spread throughout the whole world so different in their particular interests and ends and of such various dispositions and natures should all agree together in the forgery of any precise lye which is most impossible though any one man may be liable to be deceived or out of some indirect end may be induced to deceive others Whence I come to say that faith dependeth on these two propositions First that whatsoever God said is true Next that God I said this whatsoever it be that is delivered thus by the generall practice of the Church And the primary original natural appetence of mans soule is the love of truth which it vehemently desireth and is alwayes unquiet and ardent in the search of it upon what occasion soever and this acquisition of truth is that which the soule in every action naturally aimeth at and detesteth falshood Therefore although any particular man as Dr. Taylor may have his sense or fantasie so depraved as to take imperfect or maimed impressions of outward objects or the powers of his understanding so weak as to make a preposterous and disorderly collection out of them or his judgement so misguided by preoccupation of any affection or particular end as he may in himselfe be deceived and feed his soule with falshood in stead of truth or else that sinister respects and interests or sordid apprehensions of commodity to himselfe by the sensuall passions tyrannizing over him a●●o cause him to swallow mortall baits making him employ the faculties of his understanding and the powers of his soul contrary to their natural inclination to the maintaining of a lye Yet it is impossible that all mankinde or such a vast multitude of men as contain in them all the variety of dispositions and affections incident to mans nature and that are dispersed through the world so as they can have no communion together whereby they might infect one another nor can have finister ends common all alike to them all which should invite them to conspire together to forge a falshood It is impossible I say that such a company of Saints and Doctors should so degenerate from their own nature which is to love truth as they should invent a lye and that in so important a matter as faith is they should concur to deceive the world of men that should come after them in things of such nature as their deceit must of necessity damn for all eternity both themselves and all them that shall receive that lye from them and take it upon their credit This general de●ection from truth in mankind is as impossible as that all one entire element or any prim●genial nature should absolutely perish Thus I conceive I have made good the Assertion that hath begotten this discourse which is that Faith conserved and practised in the Catholick Church and delivered by perpetual Succession is most certain and most infallible But all this is not enough our disquifition must not rest here we must not content our selves in this divine affair and supernatural doct●ine with a certitude depending only upon natural causes The wisedome of God proportioneth out congruent means to bring on every thing to their proper end and mans obtaining beatitude being the highest end that any creature can arrive unto and altogether supernatural it requireth supernatural causes to bring us to that end and a supernaural infallibility to secure us in that journey we must therefore not only have a supernatural way to travel in which is faith but also supernatural assurance of the right way which we may with an humble confidence expect and claim at Gods divine hands God therefore hath given to his Church the continual assistance of the holy Ghost to confirm it in the true faith and to preserve it from error and to illuminate the understanding of it in right disce●ning the true sense of those mysteries of faith that are commited to the custody of it and to work supe● natural effects of true devotion and sanctity in that Church For Christs doctrine is practical and aymeth at the working of an effect which is the reduction of mankind to beatitude and that this mankinde conthre●● prehendeth not only those that lived in that age when he preached but also all others that ever were since or shall be to the end of the world It is apparent that to accomplish that end it was necessary Christ should so effectually imprint his doctrine in their hearts whom he delivered it unto as it might upon all occasions and at all times infallibly expresse it self in action and in the delivery of it over from hand to hand should in vertue and strength of the first operation produce ever after like effects in all others Now unto these rational considerations let us add the promises which Christ made to his Church that the gates of Hell should not prevail against it that the true Doctrine of Christ is conserved that it can never faile but must infallibly continue until the end Thus having produced that a supernatural doctrine is necessary to b●ing mankind to beatitude that Christ taught this doctrine that from him the Church received it and is the Sacrary in which it is conserved that this Church planted by him in the delivery over of his Doct●ine cannot erre and that it is perpetual And that if any particular man should goe about to introduce new doctrine of faith no● formerly heard of or renew old damned er●ors as Dr. Taylor doth drawing the Arguments of confirmation thereof out of his own ratiotination and private discourse that were enough to convince him of falshood imposture and he●esie since he should the●eby undertake to know what were impossible for him of himselfe to attain to the knowledge o● for herefie I count to be an opinion repugnant to the grounds of Christian Faith obstinately maintained by any that professe the name of Christ It remaineth now that I close up this discourse by applying the premisses to my purpose and matter at hand It is an undeniable truth that Baptism ordained for the