A27059:125
Two disputations of original sin I. of original sin as from Adam, II. of…
Two disputations of original sin I. of original sin as from Adam, II. of original sin as from our nearer parents : written long ago for a more private use, and now published (with a preface) upon the invitation of Dr. T. Tully / by Richard Baxter.Two disputations of original sin I. of original sin as from Adam, II. of original sin as from our neerer parents : written long ago for a more private use, and now published (with a preface) upon the invitation of Dr. T. Tullie / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Robert Gibbs, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
II. For the explication of the Thesis, I desire that these things may be noted, besides what is said.
1. It is original sin (increased by our sinful acts) that hindereth us from knowing original sin. As it is the ophthalmie, or gutta serena, or suffusion, that hindereth the eye, by ⟨p. 76⟩the glass to see its own disease. Original sin lieth very much in an inordinate self-love, or selfish inclination: and the more any man hath of that, the more unwilling and unapt he is to know it: and much more unapt to be truly humbled for it; and go. unsanctified men that are strangers to true self-denial, are apt to plead against the being of original sin, and are hardly brought to know it in themselves.
1. It is original sin (increased by our sinful acts) that hindereth us from knowing original sin. As it is the ophthalmie, or gutta serena, or suffusion, that hindreth the eye, by ⟨p. 76⟩the glass to see its own disease. Original sin lieth very much in an inordinate self-love, or selfish inclination: and the more any man hath of that, the more unwilling and unapt he is to know it: and much more unapt to be truly humbled for it; and go. unsanctified men that are strangers to true self-denial, are apt to plead against the being of original sin, and are hardly brought to know it in themselves.
2. Sin is a word that's usually and properly taken so largely as to contain all moral evil; or all defects, inclinations and actions contrary to the rule of holiness and righteousness, and deserving any punishment: and thus we take it in the question. But sometimes sin is taken more narrowly, as signifying only the actual transgression of the Law; but we take it not so narrowly here (for one kind of sin only).