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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
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Answ. 1. We must understand in what sense any sin at all can be called voluntary, and that is, not as if any man could will sin, no not he that sinneth maliciously, as it is sin. This is granted by all moral Philosophers, That no man willeth sin, as it is sin, because bonum, either real or appearing so, is the adequate object of the will: As in the understanding, that cannot assent to any thing that is apparently false; so neither doth the will choose any thing that is manifested to be evil, as evil, but when it embraceth any sine, there is some deceivable good or other, which deceiveth the soul. Thus Adam when he transgressed the command of God, he did not will this as a sin, nor did he positively intend the damnation of his posterity (For we suppose that he knew himself to be a common Parent, and that he received a common stock for all mankind) But he willed that action, to which sin was annexed; And thus no wicked man, when he sinneth, doth will the damnation of his soul formally, but ⟨p. 39⟩consequentially by willing that to which this guilt doth belong.
Answ. 1. We must understand in what sense any sinne at all can be called voluntary, and that is, not as if any man could will sinne, no not he that sinneth maliciously, as it is sin. This is granted by all moral Philosophers, That no man willeth sin, as it is sin, because bonum, either real or appearing so, is the adequate object of the will: As in the understanding, that cannot assent to any thing that is apparently false; so neither doth the will choose any thing that is manifested to be evil, as evil, but when it imbraceth any sine, there is some deceivable good or other, which deceiveth the soul. Thus Adam when he transgressed the command of God, he did not will this as a sinne, nor did he positively intend the damnation of his posterity (For we suppose that he knew himself to be a common Parent, and that he received a common stock for all mankind) But he willed that action, to which sinne was annexed; And thus no wicked man, when he sinneth, doth will the damnation of his soul formally, but ⟨p. 39⟩consequentially by willing that to which this guilt doth belong.