A30247:2250
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.
the word out of the Psalmist is rendered unprofitable; Thus man having lost the Image of God is become like unsavoury salt as he is noisome in Gods eyes, so he is unfit for any good thing, he is in a state of sin, and so hath no ability to what is good, neither can he by any power abiding in him ever recover out of this lost estate, so that man is now become like Ezekiel's Vine, Ezek. 15. 2, 3, 4. It will not serve for any work, not so much as to make a pin of it to hang a vessel upon it, but is only fuel for fire. Thus unuseful and unserviceable a man is become in respect of the least good, whereby the glory of God may be exalted. Thus we have the properties describing man by his natural principles.
the word out of the Psalmist is rendered unprofitable; Thus man having lost the Image of God is become like unsavoury salt as he is noisome in Gods eyes, so he is unfit for any good thing, he is in a state of sinne, and so hath no ability to what is good, neither can he by any power abiding in him ever recover out of this lost estate, so that man is now become like Ezekiel's Vine, Ezek. 15. 2, 3, 4. It will not serve for any work, not so much as to make a pin of it to hang a vessel upon it, but is only suel for fire. Thus unusefull and unserviceable a man is become in respect of the least good, whereby the glory of God may be exalted. Thus we have the properties describing man by his natural principles.
In the next place he is described, by the immediate effect from this cursed cause being thus abominable and filthy, what doth necessarily flow from hence? even to drink iniquity like water. This expression showeth the vehement inclination in man to sin, and that with delight; as a man who is greatly thirsty doth earnestly desire to drink, that the heat within may be refrigerated; Of this expression more in the Doctrine; This is enough to show, how it is with man relatively to sin, even as with a feverish, or hydropical person that is continually calling for some drink to cool the heat within.