A30247:312
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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First therefore, 1it hath been enviously of old objected against this Truth, That if there were such a natural pollution adhering to all mankind, this would redound to the dishonour of God, who is the Author of man. This Argument the Pelagians of old insulted with, If (say they) any man hold, God is the maker of man, presently he is called a Pelagian; for thus they flourished, If there be original sin, either the parents that beget, or the children that are begotten, or God the Creator of the soul, and in a peculiar manner forming all the parts of our body, must be the cause of this sin. This Objection they thought unanswerable, unless we should charge God with being the Author of this original defilement. Hence it is that they charged Man•cheism upon the Orthodox, as if they thought, that Nature it self was evil. Five things there were, that these Heretics did usually commend, Nature, Marriage, the Law, Free-will, and Holiness; none of which they thought could be maintained, unless we deny original sin.
First therefore, 1it hath been enviously of old objected against this Truth, That if there were such a natural pollution adhering to all mankind, this would redound to the dishonour of God, who is the Author of man. This Argument the Pelagians of old insulted with, If (say they) any man hold, God is the maker of man, presently he is called a Pelagian; for thus they flourished, If there be original sinne, either the parents that beget, or the children that are begotten, or God the Creator of the soul, and in a peculiar manner forming all the parts of our body, must be the cause of this sinne. This Objection they thought unanswerable, unless we should charge God with being the Author of this original defilement. Hence it is that they charged Man•cheism upon the Orthodox, as if they thought, that Nature it self was evil. Five things there were, that these Hereticks did usually commend, Nature, Marriage, the Law, Free-will, and Holiness; none of which they thought could be maintained, unless we deny original sinne.
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