A30247:262
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.
SECT. IV.
I Shall mention some few more spiritual Advantages, that come by the full and undoubted persuasion of this original corruption; for so of old we are advised, Firmissimè text, & nullatenus dubita, &c. Believe most firmly, and doubt not in the least manner, but that by Adam's sin, all his posterity becomes sinful and obnoxious to Gods wrath. And
I Shall mention some few more spiritual Advantages, that come by the full and undoubted perswasion of this original corruption; for so of old we are advised, Firmissimè texe, & nullatenus dubita, &c. Believe most firmly, and doubt not in the least manner, but that by Adam's sinne, all his posterity becomes sinfull and obnoxious to Gods wrath. And
First, upon the Knowledge of original sin we evidently see, our impossibility to keep the Law of God. That when the Law requireth a love of God, with all our heart, mind and strength; and also doth prohibit all kind of lust, and sinful concupiscence, even in the very first motions and stirrings of it. The Law (I say) requiring such universal perfection, and we being wholly dead in sin, upon the comparing of the Law, with our condition, we cannot but conclude, ⟨p. 11⟩That we fail in all things, That the Law is spiritual, but we are carnal; And if he be cursed that doth not continue in all things the Law requireth, how accursed must he be that is not able to perform any one thing? All those opinions that diminish original sin, do also plead for a possibility of keeping Gods Commandments: Now this self-flattery is inbred in all. Do not most of our common people think they keep the Commandments of God? Do they believe that the curses of the Law do belong to them every hour? Oh if such convictions were upon them, how greatly would it humble them, and make them debased before God, but they trust in this, they readily and confidently say with that young man. All these have I kept from my youth up,