A30247:2299
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
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3. There are others, who may be reduced to the Manichees, and they were Heretics called Materiaris, who feigned an eternal matter, that was so evil, that the wisdom and power of God could not subdue it, but that this malignancy did adhere to it, whether God will or no. And this they make the cause of that vicious inclination in man: It is (say they) from the evil matter man is made off, which is inseparable from it; but this doth grossly contradict the History of the Creation, as recorded by Moses, Wherein it is said, God made every thing exceeding good, Gen. 1. 31.
3. There are others, who may be reduced to the Manichees, and they were Heretiques called Materiaris, who feigned an eternall matter, that was so evil, that the wisdome and power of God could not subdue it, but that this malignancy did adhere to it, whether God will or no. And this they make the cause of that vicious inclination in man: It is (say they) from the evil matter man is made off, which is inseperable from it; but this doth grosly contradict the History of the Creation, as recorded by Moses, Wherein it is said, God made every thing exceeding good, Gen. 1. 31.
Fourthly, The Pelagian, many Papists, and the late Socinian Writers, all these attribute it to mans Creation and constitution at first, at least in part: for they tell us of a state of pure naturals, that man hath, whereby the appetite doth rebel against the mind, for man consisting of a soul and a body; hereby (say they) do necessarily arise contrary inclinations; The soul inclineth one way, and the body another way; and this conflict they are not afraid to say was in Adam himself, and therefore God gave him grace as a supernatural and superadded ornament, yea and as a remedy to keep the inferior appetite in its order: now man being fallen, he hath lost those superadditionals, but continueth in his mere naturals, and these being weak and imperfect are easily carried out to sin, wanting the grace of God to elevate them. This is the mystery of their iniquity. This is ⟨p. 452⟩