A30247:2195
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.
First, The Condition of man is said to be shut up under sin, or concluded, it is a Metaphor from those malefactors that are shut up in a prison, and cannot come forth; So that the word implieth partly the condemnation that is upon all mankind, and partly the impossibility to escape it; and then whereas it is said, under sin, that denoteth both the guilt of it, and the dominion of it, and that both original sin and actual, for both are comprehended herein, else Infants would be excluded from having an interest in Christ, for whosoever ⟨p. 422⟩are brought to Christ are necessarily supposed to be in a state of sin. Hence
First, The Condition of man is said to be shut up under sinne, or concluded, it is a Metaphor from those malefactors that are shut up in a prison, and cannot come forth; So that the word implieth partly the condemnation that is upon all mankind, and partly the impossibility to escape it; and then whereas it is said, under sinne, that denoteth both the guilt of it, and the dominion of it, and that both original sinne and actual, for both are comprehended herein, else Infants would be excluded from having an interest in Christ, for whosoever ⟨p. 422⟩are brought to Christ are necessarily supposed to be in a state of sinne. Hence
In the second place, there is the Universality [Greek or Hebrew], which is more emphatical then [Greek or Hebrew], All things, not all men; This expression is used, to show, that not only all men, but all their actions, studies, endeavours, every thing belonging to them (as it were) is thus sinful and damnable, although Grotius maketh the Substantive understood to be [Greek or Hebrew].
In the second place, there is the Universality 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which is more emphatical then 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, All things, not all men; This expression is used, to shew, that not only all men, but all their actions, studies, endeavours, every thing belonging to them (as it were) is thus sinfull and damnable, although Grotius maketh the Substantive understood to be .