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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.
In the next place, Therefore there are those, of a later hatch, but few, yet would be, if not in the number of the first worthies, yet of the second, Papists I mean; Pighius and Catharinus, against whom the Papists do as largely dispute in this controversy of original sin almost, as they do against the Protestants. These lay down their opinion in two things.
In the next place, Therefore there are those, of a later hatch, but few, yet would be, if not in the number of the first worthies, yet of the second, Papists I mean; Pighius and Catharinus, against whom the Papists do as largely dispute in this controversie of original sinne almost, as they do against the Protestants. These lay down their opinion in two things.
First, 1That the soul of a man cometh into the world pure and holy without any inherent filth of sin, and that till there be actual sins, there is nothing in man but what is of God, and for this they bring all the Arguments, which the Pelagians of old use to do, But then
First, 1That the soul of a man cometh into the world pure and holy without any inherent filth of sinne, and that till there be actual sinnes, there is nothing in man but what is of God, and for this they bring all the Arguments, which the Pelagians of old use to do, But then
- 1Some Papists.
In the second place, That they may not be anathematized as pelagianizing. They say, Adams actual disobedience is made our sin by imputation, so that they deny any original sin inherent in us, only all the original sin we have is Adams first sin of disobedience, which is made ours, hence they deny that every one hath his proper original sin, as if there were as many original sins as persons born; but they say, Adams actual disobedience, being made ours, is the one original sin of all mankind. Thus as one sun serveth to enlighten all the stars, and as some Philosophers say, that there is one intellectus agens, common and universal to all men, so they make one original sin to be common to all, and