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reason_n	baptism_n	circumcision_n	infant_n	2,369	5	9.6980	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

sin because the will through the want of original justice is left prone to rebellion against reason That original sin is formally the want of original justice is thus prov'd Every sin formally is iniustice Ergo every sin is the privation of some justice or righteousness due but the righteousness due to Infants is not actual but original Ergo original sin is formally the want of original righteousnesse due to every individual Further Even as actual sin is the want or losse of the righteousnesse and rectitude which ought to be in the consented act of the will even so original sin is the privation of original justice and rectitude which ought to be in uature which rectitude is original righteousnesse for as every act hath naturally annexed to it a proper rectitude so humane nature was created by God with its proper natural and supernatural rectitude whereas original justice as a special gift bestowed by God not only on Adam but also on all his relative descendants was a kind of rectitude and justice due and belonging to nature so as the loss privation or want thereof became a vice or sin in nature and thus the want of it is the want of due justice or righteousnesse but the privation or want of it is a sin not actual because it s not lost by any proper consented act of the will but rather it is sin original that is contracted and derived to us dayly through the actual disobedience of Adam Further I say that by original Justice man was made acceptable and gra●eful to God therefore by the losse or privation of original justice man is out of Gods favour and grac● and for this reason sin is counted the death of the soule as grace is the life of it for without habitual grace which is equivalent to original justice none can become grateful to God nor be capable of any title to Heaven Whence we may infer children to be in God Almighties debt for original righteousnesse for they all have received it in Adam from God who giving the same to him by his antecedent will gave it likewi●e to all his posterity though it was not given by a consequent will quia Adam posuit demeritum which is the reason why God doth justly exact the same of us and so we become in his debt in just and formally sinners In this all the Ancient Doctors doe agree And although original sin conveyed to posterity cannot without special revelation be proved or evinced by any natural ratiotination for how can it by humane discourse be evidenc'd that Adam did receive f●r himselfe and his posterity the gift of original justice or that Adam was appointed the great representative head in ess● morali of all humane nature or that by him those principles of morally working well viz. grace righteousness innocency c. should be derived to his posterity and that as the propagation of humane nature in esse naturali did depend of him so should likewise the conservation or losse of that happy state in esse morali or how can it appeare by natural reason that Adam prevaricating all his posterity not existing in rerum natura should prevaricate also which without the light of faith and the beliefe of what is said cannot be apprehended yet we may find out for the explicating of original sin some congruent Theological reasons The first is that ever in Gods Church from its very beginning there has been not only in the law of nature but also in the old and new a special remedy instituted for the cleansing of original sin from Infants so it s most manifest that the Church held and taught that Infants doe contract original sin for if they had not in them original ●n to be wash'd away by Circumcision or Baptism then the form of Circumcision and Baptism in them would prove false but the consequent is absurd and heretical Ergo c. Now let us but further consider what reasons may induce us to submit to this Doctrine of originall sin First For the Antiquity of it We finde some footsteps thereof under the Law yea before the Law though more darkly but under the Law we may see the footsteps thereof more manifest though not so perspicuous as under the Gospel where truth appeares as it were with open face for you may read Gen. 17. The uncircumcised man-child whose flesh is not circumcised that soule shall be cut off from the people The which Text Saint August lib. 1● de Civitat Dei c. 27. lib. 2. de p●ccato originali c. 30. contra Coelestium understands as relating to Infants not circumcised and therefore liable to punishment which S. August a●scribes to Adams prevarication in which all Infants have prevaricated and became sinners upon that account Secondly You may read Psalm 50. the Royall Prophet moaning that he was conceived in ●niquity and sin according to the Hebrew Text Thirdly You may read in Eccles. 25. A muliere initium peccat● per illam omnes moriuntur And in Job Pereat dies in quae na●us sum nex in qua dictum est conceptus est homo And in the 14. Chapt. Quis potest facere mundum de imundo concep●um semine c. And Chap. 25. according to the 70 Interpreters Nemo mundus a sorde neque Infans unius diei Whence John Baptist cryed out Ecce Agnus Dei ●cce qui tellit peccata mundi In the Greek Text we read peccatum mundi which is Adams sin conveyed to posterity These are very plain but more manifestly clear places you may read in the New Testament First S. Paul to the Romans C. 5. Sicut per unum hominem peccatum per peccatum mors c. Which words the Primitive Church and all the Ancient Fathers doe understand of original sin which Interpretation is allowed and defin'd by many Councels The second place is 2. ad Corinth 4. Si u●●us pro omnibus mortu●s est Christus c. therfore all were dead then Christ dyed f●r Infants But they died not by any actual sin therefore it must be by original sin The third place is that of S. Paul Ephes. 2. Eramus natura filii irae From which place S. August de peccatorum merit remiss c. 20. in Serm. 14. de verbis Apost. Expoundeth these words natura filii irae originaliter saying filius autem irae is a sinner So if we all have been by nature children of wrath we all must by nature be sinners And its observable that Adams sin as it s revealed in holy Scripture had two far different effects the one proper and conna●ur●l to his offence which was the infection of all his posterity borne by natural generation with original sin the other effect was also by occasion of that general infection of all mankind but properly of the inexplicable goodnesse and mercy of God ordaining for remedy of this universall infection the Incarnation and death of our blessed