A30247:1296
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.
But before we proceed, we must answer an Objection, that may be made to the Doctrine delivered; for it will easily be said, That the corruption hitherto mentioned in the understanding is actual sin rather then original; Ignorance, Atheism, I dolatrical thoughts of God, these must necessarily be judged actual; and if it be so, Why do we ascribe this to original? And indeed this Objection is commonly made by Papists, against the Positions and Confessions which the Protestants have made about original sin; for when they describe the nature of it, they usually instance in particulars, as horrible ignorance, Atheism, and dissidence in the mind, &c. To this the Papists reply, saying, We confound actual and original sin; yea, when we bring that famous place. Gen. 5. 6. The imaginations of the thoughts of the heart, are only evil, and that continually, to prove original sin, they reply the same thing to that Text also.
But before we proceed, we must answer an Objection, that may be made to the Doctrine delivered; for it will easily be said, That the corruption hitherto mentioned in the understanding is actual sinne rather then original; Ignorance, Atheisme, I dolatrical thoughts of God, these must necessarily be judged actual; and if it be so, Why do we ascribe this to original? And indeed this Objection is commonly made by Papists, against the Positions and Confessions which the Protestants have made about original sinne; for when they discribe the nature of it, they usually instance in particulars, as horrible ignorance, Atheism, and dissidence in the mind, &c. To this the Papists reply, saying, We confound actual and original sinne; yea, when we bring that famous place. Gen. 5. 6. The imaginations of the thoughts of the heart, are onely evil, and that continually, to prove original sinne, they reply the same thing to that Text also.
Therefore to clear this, we are to know, that it is true, Atheism, ignorance; these are actual sins, as they are put in exercise, but yet when we ascribe them to original sin, we do not so much mean, the actual exercise of these evils, as the Proneness and propensity of the heart to them: So that our meaning is, The heart of it self is prone to all these actual wickednesses; Therefore