A30247:1670
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.
3. That this is freedom indeed.
The Necessity supposed is, If the Son make them free; Though he speaketh this to those Jews who were in a two-fold bondage to sin, original and actual; natural and voluntary, yet this is to be applied to every man that is not in the state of regeneration, He hath no liberty or freedom of will to do what is good, but is a vassal to all sin; sin is the lusts thereof do prevail-over him, so that he hath neither will or power to come out of this bondage.
The Necessity supposed is, If the Sonne make them free; Though he speaketh this to those Jews who were in a two-fold bondage to sinne, original and actual; natural and voluntary, yet this is to be applyed to every man that is not in the state of regeneration, He hath no liberty or freedome of will to do what is good, but is a vassal to all sinne; sinne is the lusts thereof do prevail-over him, so that he hath neither will or power to come out of this bondage.
2. There is the Manner how, or the Person by whom we obtain true liberty, If the Son make you free. In some Cities the elder brother had power to adopt sons, and so to make free, however Christ is therefore called the Redeemer, because he doth obtain spiritual freedom for his people, and that not only in respect of the guilt of sin freeing from that; which grace of Christ the Pelagians did acknowledge (and would constantly interpret my Text in this sense only) but also the power of sin by inherent Sanctification and Renovation of the whole man; and of this freedom the Text doth here principally speak, not so much the freedom from the guilt of sin; by justifying grace, as from the power of sin by sanctifying grace.
2. There is the Manner how, or the Person by whom we obtain true liberty, If the Sonne make you free. In some Cities the elder brother had power to adopt sonnes, and so to make free, however Christ is therefore called the Redeemer, because he doth obtain spiritual freedome for his people, and that not onely in respect of the guilt of sinne freeing from that; which grace of Christ the Pelagians did acknowledge (and would constantly interpret my Text in this sense onely) but also the power of sinne by inherent Sanctification and Renovation of the whole man; and of this freedom the Text doth here principally speak, not so much the freedom from the guilt of sinne; by justifying grace, as from the power of sinne by sanctifying grace.