A30247:369
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.
1. Therefore, when it is said, That we are made sinners by Adam, this is not all, as if thereby we were put into a necessity of dying, or that death is now made a curse to us: For thus much the Socinians grant, That Adam's sin did hurt us thus far, That although death was natural to Adam even in the state of integrity, yet it was not made necessary nor penal, but upon Adam's disobedience, But
1. THerefore, when it is said, That we are made sinners by Adam, this is not all, as if thereby we were put into a necessity of dying, or that death is now made a curse to us: For thus much the Socinians grant, That Adam's sinne did hurt us thus farre, That although death was natural to Adam even in the state of integrity, yet it was not made necessary nor penal, but upon Adam's disobedience, But
1. This is false, That death would have been natural to Adam, though he had not sinned, as is to be showed. And
1. This is false, That death would have been natural to Adam, though he had not sinned, as is to be shewed. And
In the second place, Death as a curse, or as made necessary, is not all that we are obnoxious unto by Adam's sin, for the Apostle makes that a distinct effect of his disobedience: for he showeth, That by Adam's offence sin did first pass over the whole world, and after sin, death; So that to be a sinner is more than to be obnoxious to death, for the Apostle distinguisheth these two.
In the second place, Death as a curse, or as made necessary, is not all that we are obnoxious unto by Adam's sinne, for the Apostle makes that a distinct effect of his disobedience: for he sheweth, That by Adam's offence sinne did first pass over the whole world, and after sin, death; So that to be a sinner is more than to be obnoxious to death, for the Apostle distinguisheth these two.