Madan on Article IX: Of Original or Birth-sin

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H RIGINAL Sin flandeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians de vainly talk) but it

is the Fault and Corruption of the Nature of every Man, that naturally is engendered of the Offipring of Adam, whereby 3 Man is very far gone from original Righte=

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Righteousness, and is of his own Nature inclined to Evil, fe that the * Flesh lufteth always contr ary to the Spirit; and therefor i in 5 every Person bern into this World, it deserveth God’s Wrath and Damnation. And this * Infeftion of N. ature dot! remain, yea, in them that are repen«ritel, whereby the L. ust of the Viech, called iu reel 0 DAA Tarp 465 51 which some ao expound the [Vi faom, some Sc; ality, some the Affecs tien, fome the Desire f the Fitch, is not subjef to the Law of Ged. Aud although 7 there 1s ny Condemnation 1% them that believe and are baptized, yet the Ap»/ile

doth confess, that * Concupisceuce and Lust hath of it-

elf th: Nature of Sin,

Rom. v. 14. Death reigned from Adam to 17:/+s, even over them that had not sinned after the Simili- tude of Adam’s Fransgression.

Fob Xxv. 4. How can te be clean that is born of a Woman? Job xiv. 4. Who can bring aclean Thing out of an Unclean? not one. 5 *. Behold, I was shapen in Wickedness, and in Sin did my Mother conceive me. N. v. 12. By one Man Sen entered into the World, and Death by Sin, and / Death patled upon all Men, for that (%, in whom, Nlarg.) all have finne Ver. 15, Through the Offence of one many are dead. 10. The Ju dg ment was by one to Condemnation. 17, By one Man’s Offence, Death reizned by one. 18. By the Offence of one, Jud zment came upon all Micn to Conde te n. 19. By one Man’s Disobedience many were made Sinners. 1 Cor. xv. 22. In Adam all vie,” Jab ili. 5. Verily verily 1 say unto thee, except a Man be born again of Water and of the Sohle, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Gop. Ver. 8. That which is born of the Flesh is Flesh, and that which is born of

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( 21 ] the Spirit is Spirit. Rom. vii. 18. I know that in me, that is in my Flesh, dwelleth no good Thing.

• Gen. v. 3. Adam begat a Son in bis own Like- ness, after his Image. Gen. vi. 5. Gop saw that the Wickedness of Man was great in the Earth, and that every Imagination of the “Thoughts of his Heart was only Evil continually. Ger. viii. 21. The Imagination of Man’s Heart is Evil from his Youth. Fer. xvii. 9. The Heart is deceitful above ail Things, and desperately wicked: Who can know it ! att. xv. 18, 19. Those Things which proceed out of the Mouth come forth from the Heatt, and they defile the Man. For out of the Heart proceed evil Thoughts, Murders, Adulteries, Fornications, Thefts, false Witness, Blasphemies. P/. xvi. 2, 3. The Lord looked down from Hea- ven upon the Children of Men, to see if there were any that did understand and seek Gop. They are all gone aside, they are all together he- come filthy, there is none that doeth Good, no, not ne. Ver. 19. Vid. P/ liii. 2, &c. and Rom. lit. 10, &c. There is none Righteous, no, not one. Ver. 19. We know that what Things soever the Law faith, it sa’th to them who are under the Law, that every Mouth may be stopped, and all the World become guilty before Gop.

• The Flesn lustech against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the Flesh, and these are contrary the one to the other: So that ye cannot do the Things that ye would, Gal. v. 17.

Rom, vi. 23. The Wages of Sin is Death. Eph. ii. 3. We are by Nature the Children of Wrath.

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that I do not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the Law that it is good. Now then, it is no more T that do it, but din that dwelleth in me. For 1 know that in me, that js, in my Flesh, dwelleth no good Thing: For to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is Good, I find nor. For the Good that I would, Ido not; but the Evil which 1 would not, that I do. Now it l do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but Sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a Law. that when I would do Good, Evil is present with me. For i delight in the Law of God after the inward Man. But I see another Law io my Members, warring against the Law of my Mind, 2nd bring— ing me into Captivity to the Law of Sin, which is in my Members.

7 Hart xvi. 16. He that believeth and is bap- tized, shall be saved. Namn. viii. 1. There is therefore now no Condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. John v. 24. Verily verily I say unto you, He that heareth my Word, and be- lieveth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting Life, and shall not come into Condemnation; but is passe from Death unto Life,

• Rom. vii. 7. 1 had not known Sin but by the Law; for I had not known Lust, except the Law had said, thou shalt not covet.

Notes

• Rom. vii. 14, &c. For we know that the Law is spiritual : But I am carnal, (old under Sin. For that which I do, I allow not; for what 1 5