A30247:2658
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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Thirdly, Original sin must needs deserve damnation, because it needeth the blood of Christ to purge away the guilt of it, as well as actual sins. Christ is a Saviours to Infants, as well as to grown men, and if he be a Saviour to them, then they are sinners; if he save them, then they are lost. As for that old evasion of the Pelagian, Infants need Christ, not to save them from sin, but to bring them to the Kingdom of Heaven, it's most absurd and ridiculous; for the whole purpose of the Gospel is to show, That Christ came into the world to bring sinners to Heaven through his blood; his death was expiatory and by way of atonement, therefore it did suppose sin: hence he is sad to be the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, John 1. 29. which is both original and actual.
Thirdly, Original sinne must needs deserve damnation, because it needeth the bloud of Christ to purge away the guilt of it, as well as actual sins. Christ is a Saviours to Infants, as well as to grown men, and if he be a Saviour to them, then they are sinners; if he save them, then they are lost. As for that old evasion of the Pelagian, Infants need Christ, not to save them from sinne, but to bring them to the Kingdom of Heaven, it's most absurd and ridiculous; for the whole purpose of the Gospel is to shew, That Christ came into the world to bring sinners to Heaven through his bloud; his death was expiatory and by way of atonement, therefore it did suppose sinne: hence he is sad to be the Lamb of God that taketh away the sinne of the world, John 1. 29. which is both original and actual.
Fourthly, That eternal damnation belongeth to the sin we are born in, appeareth by those remedies of grace, and Ordinances of salvation which were appointed by God both in the Old and New Testament, for the taking away of this natural guilt. Circumcision in the Old Testament did declare, that by nature the heart was uncircumcised and that every one was destitute of any inherent righteousness; hence circumcision is called, The seal of the righteousness, which is by faith,