A09453:55
A Reformed Catholic
A reformed Catholic: or, A declaration showing how near we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundry points of religion: and wherein we must for ever depart from them with an advertisement to all favourers of the Roman religion, showing that the said religion is against the Catholic principles and grounds of the catechism.A reformed Catholike: or, A declaration shewing how neere we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundrie points of religion: and vvherein we must for euer depart from them with an advertisment to all fauourers of the Romane religion, shewing that the said religion is against the Catholike principles and grounds of the catechisme.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1598Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1598
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Reason I. Rom. 7. 17. Paul saith directly: It is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me: that is, original sin. The Papists answer again, that it is so called improperly: because it cometh of sin and also is an occasion of sin to be done. But by the circumstances of the text, it is sin properly: ⟨p. 31⟩for in the words following, Saint Paul saith, that this sin dwelling in him, made him to do the evil which he hated. And v. 24. he crieth out, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death? whence I reason thus.
Reason I. Rom. 7. 17. Paul saith directly: It is no more I that doe it, but sinne that dwelleth in me: that is, originall sinne. The Papists answer againe, that it is so called improperly: because it commeth of sinne and also is an occasion of sinne to be done. But by the circumstances of the text, it is sinne properly: ⟨p. 31⟩for in the words following, Saint Paul saith, that this sinne dwelling in him, made him to doe the euill which he hated. And v. 24. he crieth out, O wretched man that I am, vvho shall deliver me from this bodie of death? whence I reason thus.
That which once was sin properly, and still remaining in man maketh him to sin, and entangleth him in the punishment of sin, and makes him miserable: that is sin properly.
That which once was sinne properly, and still remaining in man maketh him to sinne, and intangleth him in the punishment of sinne, and makes him miserable: that is sinne properly.