A30247:1884
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.
Answer this, Here is either gross ignorance, or else a wilful mistake about the word natural and unavoidable: We grant it to be natural and unavoidable in some sense, but not in that which he taketh it, as if it were natural like sleep or hunger, which are not culpable, or have any guilt in them; But of this largely in its time, because the Adversaries do usually in an odious manner represent this inevitableness of sinning unto their Reader, though we say voluntarily contracted at first, and seem much to triumph in it.
Answer this, Here is either grosse ignorance, or else a wilfull mistake about the word natural and unavoidable: We grant it to be natural and unavoidable in some sense, but not in that which he taketh it, as if it were natural like sleep or hunger, which are not culpable, or have any guilt in them; But of this largely in its time, because the Adversaries do usually in an odious manner represent this inevitablenesse of sinning unto their Reader, though we say voluntarily contracted at first, and seem much to triumph in it.
As for the other addition [Eight persons were excepted] It is answered, That those who were godly then, and escaped that judgement, they were delivered from the dominion and guilt of this original sin, and therefore it being pardoned to them, though the remnants in some measure continued in them, they were not involved in this judgement.
As for the other addition [Eight persons were excepted] It is answered, That those who were godly then, and escaped that judgement, they were delivered from the dominion and guilt of this original sinne, and therefore it being pardoned to them, though the remnants in some measure continued in them, they were not involved in this judgement.
Lastly, What ignorance is manifested in saying, [It must be respect of persons] If God amongst those that were equally guilty spared some, and rejected others; For he may learn out of Aquinas and his followers, That respect of persons cannot be in matters of liberality and munificence, for where that is, there is some justice and debt supposed. Now if God had not saved any one man, more then any apostate Angel, I suppose he would not have charged God with in justice.