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Original Letters from the Baxter Manuscripts in D ? . Williams ' 8 Library . f %%
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bruits , for they are relatively , radically & flispositfaely cleaiie or un * cleane ; & though , they be ; no otherwise loyali or disloyal ! , yet are they ye king * s subjects * % justly punished or rewarded for their parents * faults , sensu predict 9 ; no wise Jdngliet ever
thought all trey tours' posteratie inherently disloyall ; & therefore if the princes be of good nature , th ^ y moderateif , pjiftishrnents , as y ^ common good will permit : lx 0 te summum jus sum ma injuria . J&uLtl had better make v bruits than devils .
16 . I gr ^ u ^ t a relative holinesse in ye children pf believers ; j& if you will call it so , a remote federal holinesse , J em prove some soj # of federal holiriesseiay ^ imbeUeveing Jews stSflj what then , iiiust they needs therefore be baptized . & receive y Lord ' s Supper ,
as was long used irx y church ? for y one , ^ ey eannp fc examine y * ' selves , & for 5 ^ othe r * th § y cannot make pro fessioa of their faith y therefore , per fie * tionem juris , they are feine to supply y defeat ia an ^ artifi cial way by y «* use of gocjfathers & of gixJi&Qtherg ; I oppose a relique of adult baptism *
Pagans * children may be sayd by nature , ; -L e . by birth , y children of wr ^ th , |> oth iii ? respect of ^ clam , as before , & in respect of their next parer * ts as idola ^ Qijrsy & likely to bringe them , up such $ wcl 1 childrei ) , notwith * standing any inherent siniaye , might have been educated by X , & been goode X .
Y Socinians answer , cpvo-ei , i . e . reall y * not n > uch ajxiiss , but I see no need , they vveie children of wrath by bi $ l ) L , breeding & practice . How man tBsit is borne of a woman isuncleane , I have 3 aide ; yet . sometimes hyperbolicaji expressions niust be allowed , & w § elegant ^ especially in poeticall
l > aokcs ^ , Davi < J sayth , Y wicked spe ^ k © fe from y womt ) . So Ps . li ., In siniae c | id my mother coinceive me . See what Dr » Mammond , in loc . sayth from Chrysostom , p , 269 , / . 27-1 . 7-. From y n ^ cpssitie f regeneration . >~ Regeneration is au advance nbove eyther uncoirupt nature or mere * n oral ! tie .
18 . Vych doctrine makes God ye author of . sinae , y ** s or mine , whereby no man is necessitated to sinne , properly so called , but as he freely willeth it his owaae selfe : h ^ th been said already y t text in 1 Johtt i . 8 , vol
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10 , . is commonly inisUnd ^ stopd , it i spoken ia y « person of great sinners who walked in darknesse , v . 6 , yet boasted . See Dr . Hanamoiid ^ s A ^ n aot , ia loc . James iiL 2 , speakes but of as many things wherein all men pffendi
& the context supposeth men wigh % he better . If y unfalen angels , as Calvin sayth upon those words—He chardg ^ d his angels , &c , might have their infirmities , what wonder y man ^ kiud ^ justly under a curse , should generally be so bad ! I am well asT
sured y t ye apo ^ tre ^ Rom . L , speaketli but qf y geheralitie of men , who were yet worse than by necessities-.. ¦ of nature they needed to be : men may be ill ijicliried , & yet not Sodomites , witjtiout much actual evil inclination
wiirinen thrdiv such thinggi uppa jn r noqeht nature ? That word innocent , in our use ^ often implies as miiclx as a very & \ veet & huge good disposition : but in this question it is to be taken for indifferent , \ 0 $ rather inclineing to (evill . Consider whether an honest &
good master iiiay i ^ ot e will not say of an indifferent , but of a very good nature ) an apprentice or scholar ^ & yet lay so many conxmands . on him in so many kinds , as y there may be a moral impossibilitie , or a thousand to one b ^ t y at y long run he will break orife or other of them * I
confesse you dispute with great force & judgementj but let me entreat you to consider what I have said , especially under my 4 th argument , & in answer to your 10 th . 19 . By y carnal mind , Rom . viiT . , I understand y w is in actual , & from thence habitual sinners ; but
some from their chiklehood are more towardly & better , as Josiah & Tiinothy . 20 .: Humane authorities are as y reasons w ?* ; they produce ; y mos ^ ancient ( Fathers were so much for free
wijl , y they must needs rather swim above tny opinion , than sirxke under yours . As for y Pelagians , if they be not misrepresented , w is a thing commonly enough done , as wee nowa-days find by experience , I am not
Concerned in y . After ^ 11 this , consider what you say y ^ Xfc was punish * ed for our sinnes , p . 195 - yet he was not y commiter of y , Nq ^ indeed How could a man commit y sinnes of a woman , qu& such , & 1 s ^ y y *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 729, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/25/
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