A30247:1972
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.
Some Corollaries from the Premises.
Some Corollaryes from the Premises.
Now from the corruption which you have heard of all the parts of the soul both the rational and sensitive part of a man conjoined together, we may see the unspeakable misery of man in these particulars; and oh that every auditor would smite upon his breast and say, O Lord I am the man thus polluted! O Lord all this poison and pollution lieth here! For
NOw from the corruption which you have heard of all the parts of the soul both the rational and sensitive part of a man conjoyned together, we may see the unspeakable misery of man in these particulars; and oh that every auditor would smite upon his brest and say, O Lord I am the man thus polluted! O Lord all this poison and pollution lyeth here! For
First, In having all the powers of the soul thus defiled, both superior and inferior, hereby man hath lost all liberty, and is become a miserable slave and vassal to sin and Satan. For whereas man was made only to serve God, and by love to cleave to him, the creature is come in his room, and thereby man is enslaved in his affections to these temporal things only; so that we do very improperly say, that a man is the Master or the Lord of such an estate, of such an house, for indeed he is a slave to them, Fiunt servi, dum domini esse desiderant, as Austin, while thou dost so earnestly desire to be master of such an estate, thou art indeed made a servant to it; but remember thou canst not serve God and the creature, these are two contrary masters.
First, In having all the powers of the soul thus defiled, both superior and inferior, hereby man hath lost all liberty, and is become a miserable slave and vassal to sinne and Satan. For whereas man was made only to serve God, and by love to cleave to him, the creature is come in his room, and thereby man is inslaved in his affections to these temporal things only; so that we do very improperly say, that a man is the Master or the Lord of such an estate, of such an house, for indeed he is a slave to them, Fiunt servi, dum domini esse desiderant, as Austin, while thou dost so earnestly desire to be master of such an estate, thou art indeed made a servant to it; but remember thou canst not serve God and the creature, these are two contrary masters.