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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.
Now because the known Adversary to this truth, affirmly, That he knoweth ⟨p. 535⟩of no Church that in her Rituals doth confess and bewail original sin: As also that we might see the Judgement of our first Reformers in England about Baptism, as relating to original sin; It is good to observe, what is set down in the Public Administration of Baptism, as by the Common-Prayer-Book was formerly to be used; there the Minister useth this Introductory, Forasmuch as all men be conceived and born in sin; adding from hence, That none can enter into the kingdom of Heaven, unless he be born again. It is the sin he is born in (not pure Naturals, as the Doctor saith) that inferreth a necessity of regeneration.
Now because the known Adversary to this truth, affirmly, That he knoweth ⟨p. 535⟩of no Church that in her Rituals doth confesse and bewail original sinne: As also that we might see the Judgement of our first Reformers in England about Baptism, as relating to original sinne; It is good to observe, what is set down in the Publique Administration of Baptism, as by the Common-Prayer-Book was formerly to be used; there the Minister useth this Introductory, Forasmuch as all men be conceived and born in sinne; adding from hence, That none can enter into the kingdom of Heaven, unlesse he be born again. It is the sinne he is born in (not pure Naturals, as the Doctor saith) that inferreth a necessity of regeneration.
Again, In the Prayer for children to be baptized, there is this passage, That they coming to thy holy Baptism may receive remission of sins. Now what sins can children have but their original? It is spoken in the plural number, because more than one child is supposed to be baptized. Again in the same Prayer, we meet with this Petition, That they being delivered from thy wrath; What can more ashamed the Doctors opinion then this? That which he accounteth so horrid, is here plainly asserted, That children are born under Gods wrath; therefore prayer is made, that they may be delivered from it.