A30247:216
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.
SECT. III.
IN which words are considerable, the Subject, and the Predicate, with the Manner of its attribution.
The Subject is [We] that is, we all, as in the beginning of this verse: For seeing the Jews were Abraham's children, in which they so much boasted, and therefore are called Jews by nature, Gal. 2. 15. and the natural branches, Rom. 11. 21. They might easily think, others indeed were by nature sinful, yet for themselves, they would think that glorious descent they had from Abraham might be a privilege to them, but here it is true, though Jews by nature, yet sinners by nature, as the Gentiles were.
The Subject is [We] that is, we all, as in the beginning of this verse: For seeing the Jews were Abraham's children, in which they so much boasted, and therefore are called Jews by nature, Gal. 2. 15. and the natural branches, Rom. 11. 21. They might easily think, others indeed were by nature sinfull, yet for themselves, they would think that glorious discent they had from Abraham might be a priviledge to them, but here it is true, though Jews by nature, yet sinners by nature, as the Gentiles were.