A30247:1705
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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¶. 8.
The second Argument of the Servitude of the Will is its being carried out unto sin voluntarily, and with delight.
The second Argument of the Servitude of the Will is its being carried out unto sinne voluntarily, and with delight.
Secondly, This necessity of sinning doth not at all take off from the voluntariness and delight therein, but every natural man is carried out so voluntarily and readily unto every sin suggesting it self, as if there were no necessity at all. Hence man by nature is said To swallow down iniquity like water, Job 15. 16 Even as the feverish or Hydropical man is never satiated with water; Therefore the necessity of sinning is never to be opposed to his willingness and freedom; for though a man hath no freedom to good, yet he hath to evil, Eoque magis libera, quo magis Ancilla, the more he is subject to sin, the more enslaved to it by his delight therein, the freer he is to act it; We must not then imagine such a necessity of sinning in a man, as if that did compel and force a man against his inclination and desire: You must not think that it is thus with a man, as if he could say, O Lord, my will is set against sin, I utterly abhor and detect it, but I am necessitated to do it; for the will being corrupted, doth with all propensity and delight rejoice in the accomplishing of that which is evil.