A30247:1507
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.
2. We have the Privilege or Benefit, which is said to [Greek or Hebrew], the right or dignity of being the sons of God, for so the word [Greek or Hebrew], is to be understood, and therefore Popish Disputes about the power of free-will in holy things from this place. is wholly impertinent, only the difficulty is,
2. We have the Priviledge or Benefit, which is said to 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the right or dignity of being the sonnes of God, for so the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is to be understood, and therefore Popish Disputes about the power of free-will in holy things from this place. is wholly impertinent, onely the difficulty is,
Quest. How they who believe in Christ can be said to have this privilege given them of Sonship, seeing that they could not believe, unless they were first born of God, and so the sons of God?
Quest. How they who believe in Christ can be said to have this priviledge given them of Sonship, seeing that they could not believe, unlesse they were first born of God, and so the sons of God?
Answ. Some therefore do understand this Sonship in respect of that future glory, which in Scripture is sometimes called Adoption, and 1 John 3. 1. Then it will properly appear that we are sons of God; But we may well enough understand it of our Adoption and Sonship even in this life, and this is said to be obtained by faith, because in our sense and feeling there must be believing, before we come to know this privilege doth belong to us; or else though faith and Sonship be together in time, yet in order of nature one precedeth the other.