A30247:447
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. VI.
Another Objection is from the Justice, 1Equity and Righteousness of God, as also his Mercy and Goodness; How can it be thought consonant to any of these attributes, that we should be involved in guilt and sin, because of another's ⟨p. 46⟩especially they urge that Ezek. 18. 18, 19. where God saith, The child shall not bear the sins of his father, and the Lord doth it to stop their profane cavil against his ways, as if they were not equal, because the fathers did eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth were set on edge. The Remonstrants are so confident, that in their Apology, cap. 7. they say, Neither Scripture, nor Gods Truth, nor his Justice, nor his Mercy and Equity, nor the Nature of sin will permit this.
ANother Objection is from the Justice, 1Equity and Righteousness of God, as also his Mercy and Goodness; How can it be thought consonant to any of these attributes, that we should be involved in guilt and sinne, because of anothers ⟨p. 46⟩especially they urge that Ezek. 18. 18, 19. where God saith, The child shall not bear the sins of his father, and the Lord doth it to stop their prophane ca•il against his wayes, as if they were not equal, because the fathers did eat sour grapes, and the childrens teeth were set on edge. The Remonstrants are so confident, that in their Apology, cap. 7. they say, Neither Scripture, nor Gods Truth, nor his Justice, nor his Mercy and Equity, nor the Nature of sinne will permit this.