The oeconomy of sin : wherein are explain'd, its possibility, its futurition, its nature, its event and effects, both in angels and in manAnd wherein also is demonstrated and maintain'd the truth of original sin . owards hisCreatures .• But he is not the Source of Evii, norcan he, by virtue of his Will, Decree or Power im-pute Sin and Guilt unto a Pure and Holy Creature. XIX. I infill the more upon thefe Matters, becaufe XIX. Tfou is neceffkry to vindicate the Divine Decree hom!ectfflfycfthe Reflexions which fome Mens falfe Motions caft wndicf-upon it. From God, from his Will, Decree and *?..
The oeconomy of sin : wherein are explain'd, its possibility, its futurition, its nature, its event and effects, both in angels and in manAnd wherein also is demonstrated and maintain'd the truth of original sin . owards hisCreatures .• But he is not the Source of Evii, norcan he, by virtue of his Will, Decree or Power im-pute Sin and Guilt unto a Pure and Holy Creature. XIX. I infill the more upon thefe Matters, becaufe XIX. Tfou is neceffkry to vindicate the Divine Decree hom!ectfflfycfthe Reflexions which fome Mens falfe Motions caft wndicf-upon it. From God, from his Will, Decree and *?.. *Judgment,—-proceed nothing but pure Light, pure pg§reeTruth, Juftice and Rec~titucle. He never willed the ^^ ^Being, Increafe or Imputation of Sirv, or of any lm- mwaysconcerned in the increafe of our Imparities, obliges me to enlarge /£»m thefe Mztters> purity 1 . ^ -p .J. ^ , ,1 154 77^ Pofitive Explication of Original Sin. Chap. XV. purity whatever. He is not advantaged by the Re-alities, and much lefs by the Evils of his Creatures \and why fhould he concern himfelf therein, fmce Evilcannot exift by him, and exifts but too much with-out him. CHAP. XV. The Pofitive Explication of Original \T refts upon me to explain Ori-ginal Sin, by the fifth way, where-by I do conceive every Defen-dant of fmful Adam, is laden withSin and Guilt } they are (o byOrigin, i. e. becaufe they derivetheir Nature, Being, Exiftence, all I. the I fifth andtrue Opi~ 721071) Hotif the Soulsof all theAdamick J^ace are that they have and are, from a finful Root, from which\tn™rs. they can derive only the Realities with fuch ancj Xmperfe<5liori5 as are belonging to theirOrigin. II. The certainty of this Truth depends on the fol-lowing Principle, that every thing is productive ofit fclf *, whence I conclude, that the Effect does ne-cefTarily participate of al! the Realities and Defectsof its producent Caufe ; Having proved this Prin-ciple * above at large, it is now incu
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