A30247:1975
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.
Secondly, He hath by this pollution lost all true judgement to discern of things, he doth not know what are the best things, yea he doth grossly misjudge, he prefereth earth before gold, dross before pearls. The natural man cannot discern spiritual things, because he wants a spiritual eye; he mistaketh about God, he misjudgeth about true blessedness, he is deceived about the true nature of godliness; so that he can no more judge of these things, then a worm can of Angelical actions: The Apostle speaketh fully to this, 1 Cor. 2. 14, 15. Thus we are become like children, yea natural fools as to spiritual things; when we are invited to this feast, we pretend excuses; when Christ is tendered to us, we had rather keep our swine; when exhorted to labour for everlasting bread and riches and an eternal crown of glory, we had rather have our Barley-Corn, then all these: Thus we have lost all spiritual judgement and will not part with our babbles, though for an inheritance in heaven.
Secondly, He hath by this pollution lost all true judgement to discern of things, he doth not know what are the best things, yea he doth grossely misjudge, he prefereth earth before gold, dross before pearles. The natural man cannot discern spiritual things, because he wants a spiritual eye; he mistaketh about God, he misjudgeth about true blessedness, he is deceived about the true nature of godliness; so that he can no more judge of these things, then a worm can of Angelical actions: The Apostle speaketh fully to this, 1 Cor. 2. 14, 15. Thus we are become like children, yea natural fools as to spiritual things; when we are invited to this feast, we pretend excuses; when Christ is tendered to us, we had rather keep our swine; when exhorted to labour for everlasting bread and riches and an eternal crown of glory, we had rather have our Barley-Corn, then all these: Thus we have lost all spiritual judgement and will not part with our bables, though for an inheritance in heaven.
Thirdly, A man being thus in his intellectuals and affectionate parts of his soul carried out only to these earthly things, and from God; hence is it, that he is as it were made one with them; we may say, earth thou art not only in respect of thy body, but also of thy soul; for if the Apostle say,