A30247:1871
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.
There are some who complain, that we are too tragical in explaining the nature of original sin, that we aggravate it too much; but if we consider the scope of the holy Ghost in this place, we will easily be persuaded that none can say enough in this particular. For
There are some who complain, that we are too tragical in explaining the nature of original sinne, that we aggravate it too much; but if we consider the scope of the holy Ghost in this place, we will easily be perswaded that none can say enough in this particular. For
1. Here is the heart said to be evil, that which is the very life of man, and is the fountain of all actions and motions; Not the eyes or the tongue, but the heart, which is the whole of man, which implieth also, that he sinneth not by example and outward temptation only, but from an inward principle.
2. In this heart that is said to be evil, which we would think is not capable of sin, at least of very little, the thoughts, not only the affections, or the will, the appetitive parts of the soul, but the sublime and apprehensive.
2. In this heart that is said to be evil, which we would think is not capable of sinne, at least of very little, the thoughts, not onely the affections, or the will, the appetitive parts of the soul, but the sublime and apprehensive.