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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
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¶. 1.
The Corruption of the Will in all its several Operations.
These Doctrinal introductions thus subtracted, Let us proceed to open this noisome Sepulchre, this dead and defiled will, which hath been spiritually dead, not as Lazarus four days, but ever since Adam's fall, and therefore must needs be stinking and unsavoury to a spiritual discerning. And let us
THese Doctrinal introductions thus substracted, Let us proceed to open this noisom Sepulchre, this dead and defiled will, which hath been spiritually dead, not as Lazarus four dayes, but ever since Adam's fall, and therefore must needs be stinking and unsavoury to a spiritual discerning. And let us
First, Take notice of its defilement in all its several operations, which the will aboundeth with; And we find them out of the Schoolmen thus marshalled; The will (say they) may be carried out to good simply, and absolutely as good, and then it is only a bare volition, which is either inefficacious and conditional, called velleity or efficacious and absolute, then it is volition in the general; or else it may be carried out to good relatively, as it is finis, an end, and then either this end is enjoyed and possessed, which maketh the act of the will, called fruition, or else