A30247:2163
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.
How soon a Child may commit actual Sin.
How soon a Child may commit actual Sinne.
WE are treating upon the second part of the Doctrine, which is, That the proper original sin that is in every man, doth break forth into actual evil betimes, [From the youth] The word is observed by learned men, to be used in the Plural number for Emphasis sake, and therefore is not to be limited to such a time, as when one cometh to years of discretion, but even to our childhood, therefore the Hebrew word is used of Infants, as Moses, Exod. 2. 6. and Sampson, Jud. 13. 5. although we deny not but that it is also in Scripture applied to those that are grown up; Hence Divines have a Rule, Secundum Hebraorum idioma, Infans vocatur emnis filius ad comparationem parentum, according to the Hebrew custom, every son is called an Infant comparatively to his parents, and happily we may add a Disciple and servant respectly to their Superiors. This word Obadiah applieth to himself, 1 Kings 18. 12. Thy servant feareth God from his youth; This time then of sinning is to be extended further, then usually it is imagined, for commonly we look not upon the actions of young ones as sins, till they come to some discretion, or if we do, we count them very little, and venial, they are matter of delight more then of humiliation; so few are there who do rightly affect themselves with the vanity and folly, as also enmity to holy things that they were guilty of even while little children. But because this truth hath some difficulty in the doctrinal part thereof, let us more exactly enquire into the nature of it, which will be seen in several Propositions. And
WE are treating upon the second part of the Doctrine, which is, That the proper original sinne that is in every man, doth break forth into actual evil betimes, [From the youth] The word is observed by learned men, to be used in the Plural number for Emphasis sake, and therefore is not to be limited to such a time, as when one cometh to years of discretion, but even to our childhood, therefore the Hebrew word is used of Infants, as Moses,