A30247:1711
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.
Thirdly, This bondage of the will to sin is evidently manifested in its utter impotency and inability to any thing that is spiritual. It's like Samson, that hath lost its strength, God made man right, whereby he had an ability to do any thing that was holy, there could not be an instance in any duty, though in the highest degree, which Adam had not a power to do, and now he is so greatly ⟨p. 314⟩polluted, that there is not the greatest sin possibly to be committed by the vilest of men, but every man hath the seed and root thereof within him, for this reason man by nature is not only compared to the blind and deaf, but also to such who are wholly dead in sin: So that as the dead man hath no power to raise himself, so neither hath a man who is spiritually dead in his sins.
THirdly, This bondage of the will to sinne is evidently manifested in its utter impotency and inability to any thing that is spiritual. It's like Samson, that hath lost its strength, God made man right, whereby he had an ability to do any thing that was holy, there could not be an instance in any duty, though in the highest degree, which Adam had not a power to do, and now he is so greatly ⟨p. 314⟩polluted, that there is not the greatest sinne possibly to be committed by the vilest of men, but every man hath the seed and root thereof within him, for this reason man by nature is not onely compared to the blind and deaf, but also to such who are wholly dead in sinne: So that as the dead man hath no power to raise himself, so neither hath a man who is spiritually dead in his sinnes.
That this Truth may greatly humble us, Let us consider, wherein this absolute impotency to what is holy, is in every man, for this is a great part of the demonstration of our spiritual bondage to sin and Satan. And
That this Truth may greatly humble us, Let us consider, wherein this absolute impotency to what is holy, is in every man, for this is a great part of the demonstration of our spiritual bondage to sinne and Satan. And