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A46995	An exact collection of the works of Doctor Jackson ... such as were not published before : Christ exercising his everlasting priesthood ... or, a treatise of that knowledge of Christ which consists in the true estimate or experimental valuation of his death, resurrection, and exercise of his everlasting sacerdotal function ... : this estimate cannot rightly be made without a right understanding of the primeval state of Adam ...; Works. Selections. 1654	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.	1654 (1654)	Wing J89; ESTC R33614	442,514	358

her Cage and having opportunity to have exercised her rage upon Others did single out a Courtisane of Spanish progenie whom she did as cruelly teare in pieces as if she had been Robbed by her of her whelps wearing upon that day a garment of somewhat a darker colour then the Scarlet or bright red and so much the more apt as * See Scarmilion De coloribus Philosophers teach us to provoke or enrage this or other Ravenous Creatures which be of more duskie melancholy blood And the † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Author of the first Booke of Macehab Chap. 6. ver 34. relates a warlike Practise for encouraging the Elephants to fight more fiercely against their Enemies by representing or as it seemes Squeazing the Blood of Grapes and mulberies in their sight or view 6. Now the sight of semblable Colours can have no greater force or efficacie to stir up the blood of Creatures like unto them then the solemne proposall or representation of sins prohibited hath to provoke or enrage the Reliques of Sin originall or to procure the Fits or Motions of it without the assistance of Grace by Christ to restraine them And I cannot perswade my self that some sins not to be named could ever have been or yet could be so frequently practised in diverse Regions which have submitted themselves unto the discipline of the Romish Church to all her Canons and constitutions save only from the representation or expression of the nature of such sins in those loathsome and abhominable Interrogatories which Romish Priests use in taking Auricular Confession CHAP. X. Containing such Description or Definition of Originall Sin as can be gathered from the Effects or Properties of it before mentioned 1. Sin original such a disease of the Soul as the Dropsie or other like diseases are of the body FRom these Discussions of the Properties or Symptomes we may frame this or the like Description of Original Sin it self That it is such a Disease of the Soul or such a corruption of the Humane nature as the Dropsie or other like corrupt Humours are of the Body The one sort includes a thirst or longing after such things as are forbidden them by the Physitian of their Bodies The other an appetite or hunger after such dyet as is in speciall prohibited by the Physitian of their soules And all diseases we know are dangerous wherein the Longing of the corrupt humour or matter which breeds them is much greater then the Longing or appetite of Nature especially if we give satisfaction to such intemperate desires or appetites 2. Or if the Reader desire more then a Description that is some competent Definition of Sin Original the best which for the present I can exhibite is this That it is a positive Renitencie of the Flesh or corrupt Nature of man against the Spiritual Law of God especially against the Negative praecepts being first occasioned or rather caused by the transgression of our First Parents especially from the intemperate Longing of our Mother Evah after the forbidden Fruit. For as our Apostle instructs us 1. Tim. 2. 14. Adam was not deceived but the Woman Being deceived Was in the transgression that is more deeply in the transgression then the Man because she seduced him to eate the forbidden fruit as the Serpent had done her Or as the flesh or sensitive part of our Nature doth yet often seduce the Reasonable Will to yeeld her tacit or implicit consent unto such Actions as they have expresly resolved upon or undertaken without consulting Reason or the masculine part of our Nature 3. From this First Transgression of our First Parents from the birth of Cain unto this present day or hour the forementioned Observation of the Romane Poet Nitimur in vetitum semper cupimusque negata was never out of Date but continued still in full force and strength amongst all the Sons of Adam throughout their severall generations unless perhaps in some few who by speciall priviledge or peculiar Grace have been redeemed from the raigne or dominion of Sin from the womb or from the time wherein they begun to know the difference between good and evill Our blessed Saviour who was no mere Son of Adam but the true and onely Son of God was absolutely Free from the wombe from his Conception as man from all Tincture of Sin Original from all inclinations to attempt or desire any thing that was evill or forbidden by the Law of God 4. Now the Nature Properties and Conditions of Sin Original being such as have been described it is easie to be conceived how potent it is to conquer us and to bring us into Servitude unto it self and unto Sathan Or how it is that very snare or a great part of it whereby such as oppose the truth are taken Captive by the Devill as our Apostle speaks at his will or pleasure 2. Tim. 2. 26. But of this point hereafter CHAP. XI Containing the Resolution of the maine Difficultie proposed to wit How the First Actual Sin of our First Parents did produce more then a Habit of Sin an Hereditarie disease in all their Posteritie 1. The eating of the Forbidden Fruit did pollute or poyson the nature of man THe chief Difficultie at least as some make it is How the First Sin whether of our Father Adam or of our Mother Evah or of both could possibly produce a perpetuall Habit of Sin in themselves or an Hereditarie corruption of the Humane Nature propagated from them throughout all generations This difficultie though cannot be press'd or drawne unto any Contradiction to the unquestionable rules of Reason or true Philosophy The full and cleer Solution of it only surpasseth the reach of Reason meerely natural or of Philosophy not enlightened by sacred History or Mosaicall Relations of the estate wherein man was created Surely if Plinie or some other Naturalist had been so happy as to have diligently perused and beleeved the Oracles of God delivered by Moses Gen. 1. 2. and 3. c. We Christians this day Living might have had more satisfactorie Resolutions for clearing this Point then we can gather from the Schoole-men or many of the Ancient Fathers * Gregorius de Arimino Some Schoole-men do think that our Nature was corrupted by the poysonous breath of the old Serpent in his conference with our Mother Evah I neither know nor remember whether they have any ground of this conjecture from true Antiquitie or whether it be a Masterlesse piece of their own coyning The conjecture or Phancie it self is for this reason Less probable because the Nature of our Father Adam who held no parlie with the old Serpent was no less corrupted then the Nature of his Consort Evah Other good writers are of opinion that the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill was for its specifical quality of a poysonous Nature both to the Soul and body at Least apt to taint or corrupt both and the first mans nature