Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes.

By what meanes then is originall sinne, conueyed to the children?

Neither by meanes of the soule, nor by meanes of the bodie, but by meanes of propagation from Adam alone. For that all mankind is corrupted by Adam, doth not so much proceed from generation, (vnlesse it be in regard of the manner, that is, so farrefoorth as one sinfull man begets another sinfull man) as from the iust iudgement of God: who as he had adorned all men in one as the roote and head of all mankind with originall iustice: so after that Adam sinned, in him did iustly spoile all of his gifts. Caluin Instit. lib. 2. cap. 1. Sect. 7. This contagion hath his cause neither in the substance of flesh, nor of the soule: but because it was so ordained of God, that those gifts which he had bestowed vpon the first man, he should both haue them, and also loose them, as well for himselfe as for others that come after him.

Further, the soules are infected in the bodies being corrupted with sinne, not by physicall and naturall touching, (as wine put in∣to a sower vessell) but by the most iust appointment of God. For so soone as the soule being pure in it selfe is vnited to the bodie which is conceiued in sinne, that disobedience of our first father is imputed vnto man as if it were his owne. Whereupon the Apostle saith, that all of vs sinned in Adam as in the stocke, the meaning is, that all of vs were guiltie of sinne, to wit, being in his loines, Rom. 5.12. After which maner also Leuie is said to pay tithes to Abraham before he

was borne, Heb. 7.9.10. Now this disobedience of Adam imputed, by the iust appointment of God, there followes presently in the soule also contagion, or corruption, and an inclination to euill, as a punishment of that first sinne, which punishment it selfe is also sin: euen as the obedience of Christ imputed to vs is properly our righ∣teousnesse whereby we are iustified: and regeneration is the conse∣quent of this righteousnesse. But as it is better to quench a fire, then aske how it begun, so is it better to quench originall sin, then aske how it came.