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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.
2. Original sin is alike in all in the positive part, if you do respect the remote power of sin, that is, there is in all equally an habitual conversion to the creature: Even as all have the same remote power of dying alike, though for the proxim power some die sooner, and some later; The seed then of all evil is alike in all, all are equal in respect of the remote power of sinning.
2. Original sinne is alike in all in the positive part, if you do respect the remote power of sinne, that is, there is in all equally an habitual conversion to the creature: Even as all have the same remote power of dying alike, though for the proxim power some die sooner, and some later; The seed then of all evil is alike in all, all are equal in respect of the remote power of sinning.
3. By original depravation, all are alike in respect of the necessity of sinning; There is no man in this lost estate, but he doth necessarily sin quoad specificationem (as they say) whatsoever he doth, he sinneth, though not quoad exercitium, this sin or that sin one is more engaged unto then another: Neither is this necessity of sinning like the necessity of hunger and thirst; for these are mere natural and not culpable, but this necessity of sinning is voluntarily brought upon us, and though it be necessary, yet is voluntary and with delight also: As Bernard expresseth it, The voluntariness taketh not off from the necessity, nor the necessity from the voluntariness and delight.
3. By original depravation, all are alike in respect of the necessity of sinning; There is no man in this lost estate, but he doth necessarily sinne quoad specificationem (as they say) whatsoever he doth, he sinneth, though not quoad exercitium, this sinne or that sinne one is more ingaged unto then another: Neither is this necessity of sinning like the necessity of hunger and thirst; for these are meer natural and not culpable, but this necessity of sinning is voluntarily brought upon us, and though it be necessary, yet is voluntary and with delight also: As Bernard expresseth it, The voluntariness taketh not off from the necessity, nor the necessity from the voluntariness and delight.