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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.
SECT. III.
IN the second place, To be a sinner, is more than some others have likewise explained it, which say, It's to be obnoxious to the eternal wrath of God. This way go Piphius, Catharinus, and Sal••ero•s inclineth much that way, though in some things different. Yea, Arminius and the Remonstrants, they conceive, that to be a sinner by Adam's disobedience, implieth these two things, and no more: First, That Adam's actual sin is truly and properly made ours, (and thus far they say the truth.) But then secondly they affirm, That this is all the original sin we have. They grant, that by this there is a reatus, a guilt upon all, but not any thing inherent, that hath truly and properly the notion of sin. They will therefore yield, That we are by nature the children of wrath; But (say they) not for any inherent pollution, but because of Adam's sin imputed to us. But though these two must necessarily be granted, viz. the imputation of Adam's sin, and the participation of that guilt thereby, yet this is not all, that the Apostle meaneth, ⟨p. 32⟩when he saith, We are by his disobedience made sinners; for he intends besides this, the internal and natural depravation of the whole man, which now in ecclesiastical use, is for the most part called original sin. And there are these Reasons to evince it:
IN the second place, To be a sinner, is more than some others have likewise explained it, which say, It's to be obnoxious to the eternal wrath of God. This way go Piphius, Catharinus, and Sal••ero•s inclineth much that way, though in some things different. Yea, Arminius and the Remonstrants, they conceive, that to be a sinner by Adam's disobedience, implieth these two things, and no more: First, That Adam's actual sinne is truly and properly made ours, (and thus farre they say the truth.) But then secondly they affirm, That this is all the original sin we have. They grant, that by this there is a reatus, a guilt upon all, but not any thing inherent, that hath truly and properly the notion of sinne. They will therefore yeeled, That we are by nature the children of wrath; But (say they) not for any inherent pollution, but because of Adam's sinne imputed to us. But though these two must necessarily be granted, viz. the imputation of Adam's sinne, and the participation of that guilt thereby, yet this is not all, that the Apostle meaneth,