A30247:1027
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. III.
These things being thus necessarily premised for the opening and vindication of the Text, I proceed to the Doctrine, which is
THese things being thus necessarily premised for the opening and vindication of the Text, I proceed to the Doctrine, which is
That original sin is truly and properly concupiscence or lust in a man. This name doth plainly denote more than a mere privation, for it evidently discovereth the nature of it, to be in the carrying out of the soul in all its motions sinfully, and inordinately, as also that from this as a corrupted fountain do all those poisonous streams of actual lustings in the soul flow, as Jam. 1. 14. where you have notably the rise of all actual sin described, how it cometh about that any one is enticed to do that which is wicked, he cannot accuse God or the Devil, but this lust within him: But of that famous and excellent Text, we are in time to speak. This great Truth, That original sin is Lust, or Concupiscence, doth first deserve diligent and clear illustration, and then practical amplification.
That original sinne is truly and properly concupiscence or lust in a man. This name doth plainly denote more than a meer privation, for it evidently discovereth the nature of it, to be in the carrying out of the soul in all its motions sinfully, and inordinately, as also that from this as a corrupted fountain do all those poisonous streams of actual lustings in the soul flow, as