A30247:2372
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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More Propositions concerning evil Thoughts and Motions that arise continually from the heart, as the Immediate Effect of Original Sin: Showing how many ways the Soul may become guilty of sin about them.
More Propositions concerning evil Thoughts and Motions that arise continually from the heart, as the Immediate Effect of Original Sinne: Shewing how many wayes the Soul may become guilty of sinne about them.
WE are now to finish this Discourse about that Immediate Effect of original sin, in causing evil thoughts and motions to arise continually from the heart, as vapours do constantly from the earth; and as they in their first ascension are imperceptible, till they come to be congealed into clouds, which are plainly visible: Thus all sin, while it is but in these motions and stirrings of the heart is difficulty discerned; but when it cometh to be formed by express consent, and accomplished in outward practice, then it is gross and palpable. But to proceed in more Propositions.
WE are now to finish this Discourse about that Immediate Effect of original sinne, in causing evil thoughts and motions to arise continually from the heart, as vapours do constantly from the earth; and as they in their first ascension are imperceptible, till they come to be congealed into clouds, which are plainly visible: Thus all sinne, while it is but in these motions and stirrings of the heart is difficulty discerned; but when it cometh to be formed by express consent, and accomplished in outward practice, then it is grosse and palpable. But to proceed in more Propositions.
First, These motions and stirrings of heart, they are either sudden and transitory, §I[…] abiding and mansory in the soul. Sometimes these sinful stirrings of the heart are like a sudden whirlwind in the soul that presently vanisheth, though they be very troublesome for the time; or they come like a flash of lightning and thunder, which though terrible, yet is but of short continuance; now although they make no longer abode in our soul, yet they pollute and defile it. We are not to give place to them, no not for an hour, as Paul would not to the false brethren,