SECTION VI.

The Character of the Regenerate Estate, or Person

SECTION VII.

What are properly and truly Sins of Infirmity, and how far they can

consist with the Regenerate Estate

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SECTION VIII.

Practical Advices to be added to the foregoing Considerations

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CHAP. IX.

OF THE EFFECT OF REPENTANCE, VIZ. REMISSION OF SINS.

Possibility of Repentance

SECTION I.

SECTION II.

Of Pardon of Sins committed after Baptism..

SECTION III.

Of the Difficulty of obtaining Pardon: the Doctrine and Practice of

the Primitive Church in this Article. ..

SECTION IV.

Of the Sin against the Holy Ghost; and in what Sense it is or may be

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SECTION VI.

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The former Doctrines reduced to Practice

CHAP. X.

OF ECCLESIASTICAL PENANCE; OR, THE FRUITS OF REPENTANCE.

SECTION III.

Of the Natures and Difference of Attrition and Contrition

Of Confession

SECTION IV.

SECTION V.

Attrition, or the imperfect Repentance, though with Absolution, is not

sufficient

SECTION VI.

Of Penances, or Satisfactions

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A Vindication of the Glory of the Divine Attributes in the Question

of Original Sin

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An Answer to a Letter written by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of

Rochester; concerning the Chapter of Original Sin, in the Unum

Necessarium'.

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The Bishop of Rochester's Letter to Dr. Taylor: with an Account of

the Particulars there given in charge

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Considerations of the Manner and Circumstances and Annexes of the

Institution

SECTION VIII.

Of the Arguments of the Romanists from Scripture

SECTION IX.

Arguments from other Scriptures, proving Christ's real Presence in

the Sacrament to be only spiritual, not natural.

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THE

DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE

OF

REPENTANCE.

CHAP. IV.

OF CONCUPISCENCE, AND ORIGINAL SIN; AND WHETHER OR NO, OR HOW FAR, WE ARE BOUND TO REPENT OF IT.

SECTION I.

ORIGINAL sin is so called Karaxonoтuws, or 'figuratively, meaning the sin of Adam, which was committed in the original of mankind by our first parent, and which hath influence upon all his posterity. "Nascuntur non propriè, sed originaliter, peccatores:" so St. Austin"; and therefore St. Ignatius calls it waλaiàv dvoσéßelav,' the old impiety";' that which was in the original or first parent of mankind.

2. This sin brought upon Adam all that God threatened, -but no more. A certainty of dying, together with the proper effects and affections of mortality, were inflicted on him; and he was reduced to the condition of his own nature, and then begat sons and daughters in his own likeness, that is, in the proper temper and constitution of mortal men. For as God was not bound to give what he never promised, viz. an immortal duration and abode in this life; so neither does it appear, in that angry intercourse that God had with Adam, that he took from him or us any of our natural perfections, but his graces only.

3. Man, being left in this state of pure naturals, could not by his own strength arrive to a supernatural end; which was typified in his being cast out of Paradise, and the guarding of it with the flaming sword of a cherub. For eternal life, • Epist. ad Trallian.

n De Civit. lib. 16. c. 18..