A Treatise of Original Sin, Index
AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE.
A
Actions.
MEns beſt Actions carnal, pag. 139
Bad Actions are not juſtified by good intentions, 280
The will hath not power over all its Actions. 323
Adam.
Adam had full power over himſelf. 20
Made upright. 23
Yet free and changeable. ib. 114
He ſinned not after the ſame manner, that we ſinne, againſt Socinians, ib.
A common head. 25
His ſin was diſobedience. 27
His ſin imputed to all. ib.
His diſobedience makes us ſinners by propagation, not by imitation. 28
He had power to ſtand. 114
And to repent and believe, while in innocency, tranſcendently. ib.
Deprived by his fall of more, then was meerly ſupernatural. 118
And of ſupernaturals alſo. ib.
Had free-will to good before his fall, not after. 119
Had faith. 120, 128
Loved God above all, before his fall. ib.
And delighted in him. 121
Not made in a neutral indifferent ſtate. 123
How original righteouſneſſe was natural to him. 125
What was ſupernatural to Adam, 127
Had all graces, either actually, or habitually. 128, 129
Had his affections ſubject to his mind. 134
A compariſon between the firſt and ſecond Adam. 181
Affections.
The pollution of them. 325
The nature of them. 327
How variouſly they may be conſidered. 328
Their tyranny over the underſtanding and will. 329
Sinfull in their firſt motions. 330
And in their progreſs and degrees. 331
And in their duration, and in reſpect of their objects. 332
And in respect of their end and uſe. 333
And in their motion to lawfull objects. 334
And in reſpect of their oppoſition to one another. 336
Affections polluted in reſpect of the conflict between them and natural conſcience. 336
And in their diſtracting us in duties. 338
And in their contrariety to the example of God. ib.
How they are in God. 339
Their dulneſs toward good. 340
Drawn to holy duties from corrupt motives. 341
Zealouſly drawn out to falſe wayes. 342
Inlets to all ſin. 343
The privacy of the Affections. 345
The hurtfull effects on our own bodies. 346
And others. 347
They readily receive temptations. ib.
All.
All ſinfull that come of Adam, ſinfull by nature, though the children of the moſt godly. 394
And how abſurd to exempt any. 400
God juſtified for ſhutting up All under ſin for the ſin of Adam. 421
Amyraldus.
Amyraldus and other ſenſe, upon the conflict in Rom. 7. examined. 483
Angels.
Angels not generated. 196
Appetite.
Of the three-fold Appetite in man. 158
B
Beleeve.
NO man can Beleeve by the power of nature. 315
Blaſphemies.
What deviliſh Blaſphemies have been received. 219
Body.
Body of man defiled with ſin. 372
Is not ſerviceable to the ſoul in holy approaches, but a clog. 376
Doth poſitively affect and defile the ſoul. 377
Man acts more according to the inclinations of the Body then the dictates of the mind. ib.
Its a tempter and ſeducer. 378
Doth objectively occaſion much ſin to the ſoul. 381
Its indispoſition to ſerve God. 392
Eaſily moved by its paſſions. 384
When ſanctified it is the temple of God. 385
C
Children.
CHildren ſuffer for parents ſinnes 46
Arminians make the Children of Heathens and believers alike. 67
How ſoon a Child may commit actual ſin. 416
Chriſt.
Whether upon Chriſt's death there be a univerſal removal of the guilt of original ſinne. 539
Combate.
Combate between the fleſh and the ſpirit. 474
Conflict.
No spiritual Conflict in the ſtate of integrity. 479
Nor is there ſenſe or feeling of any ſuch Conflict in a natural man. 480
It's in all that are ſanctified. 81
Conflict, the ſeveral kinds. 500
Conſcience.
What Conſcience is. 223
Whence quietneſs of Conſcience in unregenerate men. 90
And whence troubles of Conſcience in the regenerate. ib.
Erroneous Conſcience ought to be obeyed 224
Conſcience horribly blind and erroneous by nature. 225
And ſenſleſſe. 226
The defect of Conſcience in its offices and actings. 228
The corruption of Conſcience in accuſing and excuſing. 230
Of a counterfeit Conſcience. 233
Sinfull luſt, fancy and imagination, cuſtome and education, miſtaken for Conſcience. ib.
Conſcience ſevere againſt other mens ſins, blind about its own. 236
Security of Conſcience. 237
The defilement of Conſcience when troubled and awakened. 238
The difference between a troubled and a regenerate Conſcience. 243
Cauſes of trouble of Conſcience without regeneration. ib.
Falſe cure of a wounded Conſcience. 245
Conſent.
A two-fold Conſent of the will, expreſſe and formal; or interpretative and virtual. 287
Creation.
Chriſt had his ſoul by Creation, and ſo we have ours. 195
Creature.
Mans bondage to the Creature. 317
D
Damnation.
DAmnation due to all for original ſinne. 528
Death.
Death not natural to Adam before ſin. 31, 115
Death and all other miſeries come from ſin. 173
Devil.
The Devil cannot compell us to ſinne. 15, 114
Difference.
Difference between original and actual ſins. 477
Difficulty.
Difficulty of turning to God, whence. 478
Doubtings.
Doubtings, whence. 241
Duties.
Imperfection in the beſt Duties. 11
Of doing Duties for conſcience ſake. 234
E
Exorciſms.
EXorciſms uſed anciently at the Baptiſm of Infants. 54
F
Faculties.
SOme Faculties and imbred principles left in the ſoul after the fall. 224
Mans beſt Faculties corrupted by ſinne. 139
Fleſh.
Fleſh and ſpirit in every godly man. 11
How the word Fleſh is uſed in Scripture. 139
Fleſh and ſpirit contrary. ib.
Forgetfulneſs.
Forgetfulneſs natural and moral. 257
Forgetfulneſs of ſin. 260
Of uſefull examples, and former workings of Gods Spirit. 261
Of our later end, the day and death, and judgement, and the calamities of the Church. 262
Freedom.
Several kinds of Freedom. 306
Freedom from the dominion of ſin, whether it be by ſuppreſſion or aboliſhing part of it. 503
G
Grace.
WHat ſanctifying Grace is. 20
Given not ſo much to curb actual ſin, as to cure the nature. ib.
Free Grace exalted by the Apoſtles. 308
The Doctrine of free Grace unpleaſing to fleſh and bloud. 310
The neceſſity of ſpecial Grace to help againſt temptations. 314
H
Habits.
THe Habits of ſin forbidden, and the Habits of grace required by the Law. 45
Heathens.
Heathens, how far ignorant of original ſin. 168
Condemn the luſtings of the heart. 169
Hereſies. Hereticks.
The Hereſies of the Gnoſticks, Carpocratians, Montaniſts and Donatiſts. 225
The guilt and craft of Heretiques. 303
I
Jeſus Chriſt.
JEſus Chriſt his conception miraculous. 388
But framed of the ſubſtance of the Virgin. 389
Why called the Son of God. ib.
Had a real body. ib.
Born holy and without ſin. 390
How he could be true man, and yet free from ſin. 392
Ignorance.
A univerſal Ignorance upon a mans underſtanding. 178, 210
Image.
Gods Image in Adam not an infuſed habit or habits, but a natural rectitude, or connatural perfection to his nature. 19
Why called Gods Image. 21
The Image of God in man.
Reaſon and underſtanding one part of it. 113
Holineſſe and righteouſneſse another part. ib.
Power to perſevere in holineſſe another part. ib.
A regular ſubordination of the affections to the rule of righteouſnes, another part. 114
Primitive glory, honour and immortality, another part. 115
Dominion and ſuperiority another part, yet not the only Image of God, as the Socinians falſly. ib.
How man made in it. 131
Imagination.
Imagination, its nature. 351
Its ſinfulneſſe in making Idols and conceits to pleaſe it ſelf. 352
And in its defect from the end of its being. 353
By its reſtleſneſſe. 355
By their univerſality, multitude, diſorder, their roving and wandring, their impertinency and unſeaſonableneſſe. 356, 357
It eclipſeth and keeps out the underſtanding. 358
Conceiveth for the moſt part all actual tranſgreſſions. 359
Acts ſin with delight when there are no external actings. 360
Its propenſity to all evil. 361
Is continually inventing new ſins, or occaſions of ſin. 362
Vents its ſinfulneſſe in reference to the Word, and the preaching of it. 364
Mind more affected with appearances than realities. 365
And in reſpect of fear and the workings of conſcience. 366
And its acting in dreams. 367
Is not in ſubordination to the rational part of man. 368
The inſtrument in Auſtins judgment of conveying ſin to the child. 368
Prone to receive the Devils temptations. 369
Immortal.
How many wayes a thing may be ſaid to be Immortal. 509
Of Adams Immortality in the ſtate of innocency. 513
Impoſſibility.
Impoſſibility of mans looſing himſelf from the creature, and return to God, 371
Infants.
Infants deſerve hell. 7
Sinners. 29
Cannot be ſaved without Chriſt. 35, 55
Infant-holineſſe, what it is. 56
Infants defiled with original ſin before born. 62
Judgment.
Whence diverſities of Judgment in the things of God. 219
Juſtification.
Juſtification by imputed not inherent righteouſneſſe. 29
K
Knowing. Known.
CVrioſity and affection in all of Knowing what is not to be Known 184
Which comes from original ſin. 212
L
Law.
THe Law impoſſible to be kept. 10
A Law what. 85
The Law requireth habitual holineſſe. 130
Forbids luſt in the heart. 156
Liberty.
Liberty of will nothing but voluntarineſſe or complacency. 132
Luſt.
What Luſt is. 155
How diſtinguiſhed. 157
Luſt conſidered according to the four-fold eſtate of man. 160
Sinfull Luſt utterly extirpated in heaven 161
M
Man.
MAn by nature out of Gods favour. 117
Man made to enjoy and glorifie God. 132, 133
How ſin diſſolved the harmony of Mans nature. ib.
Man unable to help himſelf out of his loſt condition. 153
Through ſin it is worſe with Man than other creatures. 174
The nobler part of Man inſlaved to the inferiour. 175
Man utterly impotent to any spiritual good. 177
By his fall became like the devil. 183
Memory.
The pollution of it. 247
What it is. 250
A two-fold weakneſſe of Memory, natural and ſinfull. ib.
The uſe and dignity of it. 251
The nature of it. 253
Diſcoveries of its pollution. 253
Wherein it is polluted. 257
Wherein it fails in reſpect of the objects ib.
Hath much inward vitioſity adhering to it. 263
Subſervient to our corrupt hearts. 265
Mind.
Whence the vanity and inſtability of the Mind. 217
Miniſtry.
One end of the Miniſtry. 255
N
Natural.
EVery Natural man is carnal, in the myſteries of Religion, in religious worſhip, in religious ordinances, in religious performances. 140, 141
In ſpiritual tranſactions and religious deportment. 142, 143
Neceſſity.
What Neceſſity is conſiſtent with freedom 312
O
Original Sinne.
THe neceſſity of knowing it. 1
The term ambiguouſly uſed; and how taken in this Treatiſe. ib.
That there is ſuch a natural concontagion on all. 2
Why called Original ſin. 5
Denial of it, the mother of many errors 6
The cauſe of all miſeries. 7
Worſe than actual. 8
Ignorance thereof the cauſe why men underſtand not the work of converſion. 9
Inſeparably adheres to the beſt. 11
A natural evil, and how; with the ſeveral names it hath had. 13
The difilement of our specifical being. 14
The inward principle of all ſinfull motions. ib.
Flacius his opinion concerning it. ib.
Is alwayes putting it ſelf forth. 16
Neerer to us than actual or habitual ſin. 18
What it is. 19, 20
Why compared to death. 21
Objections anſwered. 22
Pelagians and Socinians opinion of it. 28
Propagated. ib.
Is an internal and natural depravation of the whole man. 32
Adams ſin imputed to us, is not all our Original ſin. ib.
Of that opinion, that Original ſinne is vitium, but not peccatum. 33
Truly and properly a ſin. 34
Againſt the Law. 35
How voluntary. 39
Arminius and the Remonſtrants diſagree about Original ſin. 40
Arminius, Remorſtrants, Zuinglius, Papiſts, Scotiſts, and Socinians opinions of it. 40
A ſin, a puniſhment, and a cauſe of ſin. 41
Original inherent ſin, and Adams imputed ſin are two diſtinct ſins. 43
Againſt the Law, and how. 44 45
Acknowledged in Old Teſtament times 48
Remonſtrants confeſs it may be proved by two or three places of Scripture. ib.
Compared to a leproſie. 51
Makes us leathſom to God as ſoon as born. 52
Why called uncleanneſs. ib.
Should make us vile in our own eyes. ib.
Put a man by nature into worſe condition than beaſts. 53
Makes us like the Devils. ib.
Pollutes our duties, and makes us unfit and unworthy to draw nigh to God in duties. 54
Makes us to be in the moſt immediate contrariety to God that can be. ib.
The denial of it charged upon Calviniſts by the Lutherans. 56
Acknowledged by the Rabbins and Fathers. 62
Meditation thereon, wherein advantagious. 64
Not one univerſal thing of general influence, but a particular thing in particular men. 65
To be bewailed, even by thoſe that are regenerate. ib.
A two-fold Original ſin. 66
The different opinions of men about humiliation for it. 67
In what ſenſe it is to be repented of. 68
Papiſts againſt ſorrow for it. 69
Several opinions concerning the pardon of it. 67, 68, 69
Wherein repentance and the pardon of Original and actual ſin do differ. 70
It is an univerſal defilement. 71
And an univerſal guilt. ib.
And the fountain and root of all actual ſin. ib.
And the greateſt ſin. 72
Inſeparable from our natures, while we live. 73
Of the Scripture names of it. 79
Not the eſſence or ſubſtance of the ſoul ib.
Why called the old man. 80
Improperly called a Law. 83
Why called a Law. 84
Inſtructs a man in all evil ib.
Inclineth and provoketh to all evil. ib.
Compelleth to all evil. 85
Why called the inherent or in-dwelling ſin. 90
How it dwels in the regenerate. ib.
Active, and ever ſtirring. 94
Is of an inſinuating and contaminating nature. 95
Depriveth both of power and will to do good. 97, 98
Inclines the heart to the creature. 98
Reſiſteth all profers of grace. 99
Weakens the principles of grace. 100
Why called a treaſure. 102
An inexhauſted ſtock. 103
The cauſe of all pleaſure in ſin. 104
Called a body and why. 105 107
Shews it ſelf outwardly in all our actions. 107
Cannot be mortified without pain. ib.
A reality, yet not a ſubſtance. 108
Not a ſingle ſin, but a lump of all evil. ib.
Inclineth only to carnal, earthly, and bodily things. 109
Seth born in Original ſinne. 110, 111
Deprives of more than external happineſs and immortality, againſt Socinians. 117
Many Papiſts deny the poſitive part of it. 136
Hath infected all men. 137
Poſitive as well as privative. 144
And the reaſons thereof. 145
Produceth poſitive ſinfull actions. 146
Sticks cloſer then vicious habits. ib.
Not a peſtilential quality in the body. 149
Is properly concupiſcence or luſt. 157
And in what ſenſe. 159
And why ſo called. 162
It is ignorant alſo. ib.
Defined. 164
The whole man, and the whole of man the ſubject thereof. ib.
Propagated and communicated to all Adams poſterity. 165
Truly known only by Scripture-light. 167
How farre Heathens were ignorant thereof. 168
The propagation thereof by the ſouls creation. 199
Hath fill'd us with errour. 211
And with curioſity. 212
And vanity. 213
And folly. 214
Polluting the conſcience, how, and wherein. 221
Polluteth the memory. 249
Polluteth the will. 268
The affections. 325
The imagination. 348
The body of a man 392
And every one of mankind. 387
Not the children of the moſt godly, or the Virgin Mary excepted, but only Chriſt, 387. to 401
Original ſin imputed, the aggravations of it. 405
Inherent; the aggravation of it. 407
It defiles all the parts of the ſoul, is the root and cauſe of all actual ſin, is incurable, taketh away all ſpiritual ſenſe and feeling, is habitual, radicated in the ſoul. 407. to 410
Objections againſt the hainouſneſſe of this ſin: Every one hath his proper Original ſin. 412
Vents it ſelf betimes. 415
Is alike in all. 419
The immediate effects of Original ſinne are mans propenſity to ſin. 437. to 455
Is the cauſe of all other ſine. 455
Evil motions not conſented unto, and luſts conſented unto. 464
The combat between the fleſh and ſpirit 474
Death. 505
Eternal damnation. 526
P
Pray.
A Natural man cannot Pray. 314
Pride.
Pride the cauſe of moſt hereſies. 218
Propagation.
Propagation of ſin. 397
Puniſhment.
The ſame thing may be a Puniſhment and a ſin. 41
R
Redeemer.
THe neceſſity of a Redeemer demonſtrates our thraldom to ſin. 319
Reformation.
A carnal mans Reformation is but the avoiding of one ſin by another. 318
Regenerate.
A ſure difference between a Regenerate and unregenerate man. 9
Regeneration.
Three ſorts of miſtaken Regeneration. 10
Reliques.
Reliques of ſin. 474
Remember.
Whence is it that we Remember things when we would not. 266
Righteouſneſs.
Original Righteouſneſs not given to Adam as a curb to the inferiour faculties. 25
The difficulty of Rom. 5. 26
Original Righteouſneſs, the privation of it a ſin. 130
We were deprived of it by Adam. 131
Vniverſally loſt. 135
The loſſe of it the cauſe of all temporal loſſes. ib.
The privation of it doth neceſſarily inferre the preſence of all ſin in a ſubject ſuſceptible. 202
S
Sacraments.
ONe end of the Sacraments. 255
Sanctification.
Sanctification two fold. 391
Satan.
All by nature in bondage to Satan. 370
Scripture.
Scripture diſcovers us to our ſelves better then light of nature or Philoſophy. 161, 168
The end of its being written. 253
Self-knowing.
Self knowing a great duty, and the hinderance of it. 8
Senſleſs.
We are altogether Senſleſs as to any ſpiritual concernment. 176
Sin.
A man naturally can do nothing but ſin. 15, 16
The reaſon why all men do not commit all Sins, though inclinable thereto. 17
Men lie under a neceſſity of ſinning, yet this neceſſity is conſiſtent with voluntarineſſe. 18
Sin delightfull to men. 21
How Sin is natural to us. 24
Chriſt only born without Sin, and how. 37. 390
Sin, is what ſenſe voluntary. 38
When a puniſhment, how from God. 42
One Sin may ſuddenly and formally deprive the ſubject of all grace, yet it doth not ſo alwayes. 58
Three ſorts of Sin, original, habitual and actual. 89
The firſt motions of the heart, though never ſo involuntary and indeliberate, are ſinfull. 94
All Sin is potentially and ſeminally in every mans heart. 103
Every man would commit all Sin, if not reſtrained. 147
Sin rightly divided into original and actual. 164
Whence it comes to paſſe that men commit known Sins. 227
Why men chuſe Sin rather than affliction. 283
Every man lieth under a neceſſity of ſinning. 311
Sinners.
To be made a Sinner by Adam is more than to be made ſubject to death as a curſe. 31
And more than to be obnoxious to eternal wrath. ib.
All mad: truly and properly Sinners by Adam. 31, 34
Every man, Chriſt excepted. 387, 393
Socinians.
Wherein Socinians do make God the author of ſin. 66
Socinians and Papiſts blaſphemy 114
Socinians deny both original ſin, and original righteouſneſſe 121
The rocks they ſtumble at. ib. & 122
Soul.
The arguments of thoſe that hold the Souls traduction. 197
Souls not by eduction or traduction, but creation and introduction. 191
Soul not generated. 189
Souls created. 194
Origen and Plato's opinion of the Soul. 186
Confuted. 187
The Soul cannot be neutral. 130
Inclined to earthly objects. 175
Souls not created before the bodies. 187
Souls come not into the world pure and holy. ib.
Souls not perfect ſubſtances. 200
The Soul infuſed by creating, and created by infuſing. 21
How it comes to be infected. 393
T
Taylor.
A Character of Doctor J. Taylor. 30
He is anſwered in theſe places. 62, 398, 407, 409, 422, 430, 449, 450, 452, 461, 476, 485, 518 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 527, 528, 534, 535
V
Vanity.
OF the natural Vanity of our minds 213
Virgin.
Virgin Mary born in original ſin. 398
Uncleanneſs.
A three-fold Uncleanneſs, corporal, ceremonial and moral. 50
Underſtanding.
Our Underſtandings very weak in reſpect of natural things. 179, 219
And uncapable of holy and spiritual things. 212
Voluntarineſs.
Voluntarineſs not requiſite to every ſin. 39
W
Wickedneſs.
OF the extream Wickedneſs of the world. 172
Will. Willeth.
No man Willeth ſin, and damnation, as ſuch. 38
Adams Will, how ours. 39
The Nature of the Will. 270
The difference between the Will and underſtanding. 271
Will, taken ambiguonſly. 272
The Will the ſeat of obedience and diſobedience. 273
Good, is the proper object of the Will. ib.
The ſeveral operations of the Will. 274
The difference between a wicked mans, and a good mans doing what he allows not. 88
Free Will, how far we are deprived of it. 116
The corruption of the Will in volition. 275
And in efficacious Willing a thing. 276
And in fruition. 277
And in its act of intention. 279
And in election. 282
Whence it is that the Will is backward to to follow the underſtanding. 284
The pollution of the Will in its act of conſent. 286
The firſt motions of the Will are evil. ib.
The pollution of the Will in its affections and properties. 289
The degeneracy of the Will. 293
The Will wholly perverted about the ultimate end. ib.
The Will naturally inclineth to be independent on God. 295
The contumacy and refractorineſs of the Will. 297
The enmity and contrariety of the Will to Gods will. 298
The rebellion of the Will againſt the light of the mind, and the ſlavery of it to the ſenſitive part. 299
The mutability and inconſtancy of the Will. 300
The bondage of the Will, and of free will. 302
No man before grace hath free will to good. 305
The Will impotent to ſpiritual things. 313
Free will, how call'd in Scripture. 307
Exalted by erroneous perſons. 308
The different effects of free will and free grace in mens lives. 310
The difficulty of the queſtion. 311
Demonſtrations againſt it. ib.
The definitions and deſcriptions of it. 320
Doth not conſiſt in an active indifferency to good or evil. 321
FINIS.