A30247:1004
A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is
A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is, by pregnant texts of Scripture vindicated from false glosses / by Anthony Burgess.
London : s.n., 1658
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.
CHAP. XVIII.
A second Text (to prove Original Sin to be Positive) opened and vindicated.
A second Text (to prove Original Sinne to be Positive) opened and vindicated.
SECT. I.
ROM. 7. 7. For I had not known lust, except the Law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
WE are discovering the Nature of original sin in the Positive part of it; For although Corvinus the Remonstrant cavilleth at the Division of original sin into two parts, therein gratifying the Papists (as it were, yet we see the Scripture speaking of it fully, as having these two parts; And whereas he saith, The Positive inclination to evil, must be the effect of the privation of original righteousness, and so not a part of original, because an effect cannot be a part of its cause.