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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 64
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First, That death is not according to mans creation at first, he was not made mortal or corruptible: But as the sentence of God doth witness, In the day Adam did eat of the forbidden fruit, he fell into a dying condition. It is true, The Question is of a large dispute, Whether Adam was made immortal or no? The Papists say, he was made mortal; and the Socinians they do more frowardly oppose this truth, affirming, Adam would have died, though there had not been any eating of the forbidden fruit. So that with them actual death was necessary before Adams sin; only it became a punishment after. But Rom. 5. the Apostle at large showeth, That by one mans sin death came into the world. And Rom. 6. 23. The wages of sin is death. Death then being wholly against the natural institution: At first Adam had an implanted love of his life in him. And although his estate was so blessed, that there could not be place for any fear, yet had he been capable of losing his life, his love to it would have made him afraid of being deprived of it. This then is the great mystery, that the natural wise men of the world were ignorant of. Death they would not deny, they called it, The tribute of Nature, which all must pay; only they did not know the cause of it, they understood not how it came to se•se upon all mankind.
First, That death is not according to mans creation at first, he was not made mortal or corruptible: But as the sentence of God doth witness, In the day Adam did eat of the forbidden fruit, he fell into a dying condition. It is true, The Question is of a large dispute, Whether Adam was made immortal or no? The Papists say, he was made mortal; and the Socinians they do more frowardly oppose this truth, affirming, Adam would have died, though there had not been any eating of the forbidden fruit. So that with them actual death was necessary before Adams sinne; only it became a punishment after. But