A30247:1012
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.
SECT. II.
The word Lust expounded.
Having therefore considered this Title or Name given to original sin (viz. Flesh.) which doth denote the Positiveness of it: I come to a second, which shall also be the last, and that is the word lust or concupiscence, which both in the Scripture, and in the writings of several Authors is attributed to it; For which purpose the Text pitched upon is very useful.
HAving therefore considered this Title or Name given to original sinne (viz. Flesh.) which doth denote the Positivenesse of it: I come to a second, which shall also be the last, and that is the word lust or concupiscence, which both in the Scripture, and in the writings of several Authors is attributed to it; For which purpose the Text pitched upon is very usefull.
To understand which, consider that the Apostle having asserted some things, ⟨p. 155⟩which in an outward appearance did seem to dishonour the Law, he maketh this Objection to himself, Is the Law sin? A cause of sin, and so sin, and God the Law-giver a commander of sin; To which he answers, [Greek or Hebrew], by defiance, God forbid, and in the next place giveth a reason, why the Law cannot be the cause of sin, because that doth discover and detect sin, that judgeth and damneth it, therefore it cannot be the cause of sin; and that the Law is the manifester and reprover of sin, he instanceth in himself, and his own experience, I had not known lust to be sin, except the Law had said, Thou shalt not covet.