A30247:328
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. V.
The other Objections will come in seasonably from other Texts; I shall therefore dismiss this Verse and Doctrine, with a vehement entreaty, not to let the meditation of this Truth go out of your hearts, till it hath humbled you in the dust, till you look upon your selves as filthy and abominable, worse than any Toads or Serpents: What is it a light matter, to have a nature that is all the day long, either in thought, word or deed offending God? Your natural evil is ⟨p. 26⟩more to be deplored, in some sense, than all your actual evil; for as long as this spring is, there will always be polluted streams: Many things may humble and debase us, as men, but this is the Goliaths Sword, none like this to pierce and cut at the very heart, even that we are naturally evil.
THe other Objections will come in seasonably from other Texts; I shall therefore dismiss this Verse and Doctrine, with a vehement intreaty, not to let the meditation of this Truth go out of your hearts, till it hath humbled you in the dust, till you look upon your selves as filthy and abominable, worse than any Toads or Serpents: What is it a light matter, to have a nature that is all the day long, either in thought, word or deed offending God? Your natural evil is ⟨p. 26⟩more to be deplored, in some sense, than all your actual evil; for as long as this spring is, there will alwayes be polluted streams: Many things may humble and debase us, as men, but this is the Goliahs Sword, none like this to pierce and cut at the very heart, even that we are naturally evil.