Ellis on Article IX: Of Original or Birth-sin

Ans. Adam’s Sinwas not Numerically, but Spe- cifically, One ; and thar inclusive of rhe whole Spectes : As he finned,so have we likewise sinned in him, and we are justly punished in our selves.

Obj. 2. I: is plain, there i no such thing as Original Sin, because the Son shall-nor’ bear the Iniquiry of the Father, /ays’the Propher, Ezek. I 3. 20. 0 NI DILLETG G6

Answ. The Son’does not bear’rhe Personal ’ Sins of his Father ; bur the Sin of the first Man was a stain of the whole Narure ; when therefore any one is punithed for the Sin of Adam, he is punished for his own. -\

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[hi Obj. 3. Sin # a voluntary thing ; but Origi= “i nal Sin x not fo in Infants. ; t | Ans. Original Sin is voluntary in All, nay, *

i eyen in! Infants too : for our Wills ‘were ;

it in the Will of Adam, as ‘in the Principle of ? [i Maoking ;- in him we willed and desired Obj. 4. An Accident of one Individual i not’ * [if trgnsferred-to the: whole Species, but the Sin of [1H Adam: was only an Accident of one Individual.

: +Axs. Adam, inasmuch as he was the Prin- ciple of Human Nature ,was to be look’d upon here as an w7ver/al Cause. | . Obj.’ 5. The Children of Holy Men are Holy, ‘Y 1- Cor, 7. 14. therefore they are not born in Sin, »

.,Ans., ; The Children of Holy Men are nor so Holy, as-to. be free from Original Sin,; bur they are called so in regard of a Communion with the Church, by reason of that Covenanr, Gen. 17. 7. I will be a God to Thee, and to thy Seed. They are therefore Holy, with a rela- | tive, and not with any inherent Holiness ; so: also they are Innocent, in respect to those Sins which are commuted against Knowledge.

| Obj. 6. In Baptism we receive a perfett Re- mission of Sins, therefore Orrginal Sin 1s wholly

! ! taken away, and so remains not in the Regenerate, ’ Ans. Remission of Sin takes away Sin, as ro. its; Imputation, ;nor-as to its Being ; for Mortification, is but imperfect in this Life : so in Baprism Sin is raken away ; bur not fo muchithe Sjn-ir self, as rhe’Sting of ir, that ir * may not hurt us,

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Obj. 8. Concupiscence, or a proneness to E-= vil, u distinguished from Sin, as the Cause «x from the Effe, Jam. 1. 15. and therefore is 220t of it self to be accounted Sin.

Answ. Concupilcence is distinguished from Actual Sin, and from an external Act already compleared ; bur in the mean time, 1t has of it self the nature of a Sin, because of ir self ir is not subjected to rhe Law of God : Andir is this Rebellion of the Powers of our Souls rha disposes us to all manner of Sins. |

ART. X. Of Free-Will.