A30247:2253
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.
1. (They say) It is an Hyperbole; This is their constant refuge, whensoever the Scripture saith any thing to exalt Christ, or deba•e man, they make it an Hyperbole, but how can that be accounted an Hyperbole, which experience doth confirm? And the Adversaries to original sin grant, that mankind is very prone to sin, and all are very ready to offend, though they attribute this to other causes rather then original sin. This Answer of theirs hath been fully confuted, when we treated on Psal. 51.
1. (They say) It is an Hyperbole; This is their constant refuge, whensoever the Scripture saith any thing to exalt Christ, or deba•e man, they make it an Hyperbole, but how can that be accounted an Hyperbole, which experience doth confirme? And the Adversaries to original sinne grant, that mankind is very prone to sinne, and all are very ready to offend, though they attribute this to other causes rather then original sinne. This Answer of theirs hath been fully consuted, when we treated on Psal. 51.
2. (They say) Such an impurity is noted to be in man, as is in the Angels and the Heavens, but they have no original sin: The Answer is, That there is more attributed to man, how much more abominable is man? So that the Argument is taken from the less to the greater.
2. (They say) Such an impurity is noted to be in man, as is in the Angels and the Heavens, but they have no original sinne: The Answer is, That there is more attributed to man, how much more abominable is man? So that the Argument is taken from the less to the greater.