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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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SECT. II.
The second Objection is in effect to this sense, What is a punishment cannot be a sin: But the deprivation of Gods Image in man upon Adam's disobedience is a punishment; And therefore it cannot be a sin. Original sin, if not totally, yet principally consists in the loss of that original Righteousness and rectitude, which God made man in: Seeing therefore the privation of this came upon man by way of punishment, when Adam transgressed; We cannot conceive it (say they) to be a sin also, for a punishment and a sin, are wholly contradictory; a sin must be voluntary, a punishment involuntary, a sin is an action, and a punishment is a passion; a sin is an evil, and God cannot be the author of it; a punishment is good, and an act of Justice; so that God cannot be said to permit that, but to inflict it.
THe second Objection is in effect to this sense, What is a punishment cannot be a sinne: But the deprivation of Gods Image in man upon Adam's disobedience is a punishment; And therefore it cannot be a sinne. Original sinne, if not totally, yet principally consists in the losse of that original Righteousnesse and rectitude, which God made man in: Seeing therefore the privation of this came upon man by way of punishment, when Adam transgressed; We cannot conceive it (say they) to be a sinne also, for a punishment and a sinne, are wholly contradictory; a sinne must be voluntary, a punishment involuntary, a sinne is an action, and a punishment is a passion; a sinne is an evil, and God cannot be the author of it; a punishment is good, and an act of Justice; so that God cannot be said to permit that, but to inflict it.
This Argument (at the first view) hath likewise some colour, but upon the examination of it, it will quickly vanish: I shall not answer in a large dispute about that famous Question, Whether the same thing may be a sin and a punishment? Or, whether God doth punish one sin with another, but shall speak as much, briefly, as is convenient for this Objection. And