A30247:1067
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.
Original sin is an horrid depravation and defilement of the whole man, caused by the Devils temptation, and our first Parents obedience thereunto, and from them descending by propagation to all his Posterity, being stripped of Gods glorious Image, whereby they are prone to all evil, and so are under the bondage of the Devil, and obnoxious to eternal wrath. It is not my purpose in making this draught of it, to attend unto the exact rules of Logic, but so to compose it, that every thing considerable to give the true knowledge of it, may be comprised therein. And
ORiginal sinne is an horrid depravation and defilement of the whole man, caused by the Devils temptation, and our first Parents obedience thereunto, and from them descending by propagation to all his Posterity, being stript of Gods glorious Image, whereby they are prone to all evil, and so are under the bondage of the Devil, and obnoxious to eternal wrath. It is not my purpose in making this draught of it, to attend unto the exact rules of Logick, but so to compose it, that every thing considerable to give the true knowledge of it, may be comprized therein. And
First, We say, It's a depravation and defilement, which implieth the sinfulness of it, that it is truly and properly a sin; And therefore sin is truly and univocally divided into original and actual; so that they who make it only to be guilt without any inward contagion, they do wholly err from the Scripture, they say not enough. It is true, Adam's sin in the guilt of it is imputed unto us, which made Ambrose of old say, as Austin allegeth him against the pelagians, Morinus sum in Adamo, ejectus sum in Paradiso in Adamo &c. I am dead in Adam, I am cast out of Paradise in Adam: But we are not disputing of original imputed sin, but original inhering; Therefore original inherent sin is truly and properly a defilement upon us against the Law of God, and this sinful estate of all by nature, should be far more terrible unto us, then our miserable and mortal estate. Again, When we call it a defilement, we oppose their opinion, who make it only morbus, and not truly a sin; As also those who say, It is the substance of a man, for if so, then Christ could not have taken our nature without sin, neither could there be glorified bodies in Heaven without sin, for all these have the humane nature of a man. Further we say, It's an horrid depravation: This Epithet is necessary to be added to awaken pharisaical and self-righteous persons, it being so dreadful an evil, that we are never able to go to the depth of it: Never therefore think of speak of original sin, but let thy heart tremble, and let horror and amazement take hold of thee, because of it; and this is put in the Description to obviate those opinions that make it the least of all sins. Some complain, That we are too severe and tragical in the aggravation of it; but enough hath been already spoken out of Scripture, to show, that neither heart can conceive, or tongue express the foulness of it. This is the general part of the Description.