A30247:1276
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.
What doth any knowledge profit if it be not of the truth as it is in Jesus, if it be not an acknowledgement after godliness, thou deniest the faith, and art indeed worse then an Heathen? There is Theologia rationalia and experimentalis, as Gerson, or Theologia docens and utens. It is this later, viz. an exercised experimental Divinity, that maketh a Divine properly: Therefore Amesius his definition of Theologia is good, that it is Doctrius Deo vivendi, a Doctrine whereby we are taught to live unto God. Every wicked Christian is worse then a Pagan; But who will believe this report? Now that we may know what it is to know truth as it is in Jesus, he instanceth in a twofold effect or demonstration thereof:
What doth any knowledge profit if it be not of the truth as it is in Jesus, if it be not an acknowledgment after godlinesse, thou deniest the faith, and art indeed worse then an Heathen? There is Theologia rationalia and experimentalis, as Gerson, or Theologia docens and utens. It is this later, viz. an exercised experimental Divinity, that maketh a Divine properly: Therefore Amesius his definition of Theologia is good, that it is Doctrius Deo vivendi, a Doctrine whereby we are taught to live unto God. Every wicked Christian is worse then a Pagan; But who will believe this report? Now that we may know what it is to know truth as it is in Jesus, he instanceth in a twosold effect or demonstration thereof:
The first is, To put off the old man with the deceitful lusts thereof. This old man you heard is original sin, this must be mortified with the immediate issues thereof: So that a true knowledge of Christ doth not only cleanse the streams, but the fountain also, doth not only change the conversation of a man, but the heart, the affections, the whole man. It goeth to the root as well as the branches.
The first is, To put off the old man with the decitfull lusts thereof. This old man you heard is original sinne, this must be mortified with the immediate issues thereof: So that a true knowledge of Christ doth not only cleanse the strems, but the fountain also, doth not onely change the conversation of a man, but the heart, the affections, the whole man. It goeth to the root as well as the branches.