A30247:463
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.
In the words therefore we have a full and clear Description of that original sin or birth-sin we are guilty of; Yea the Text saith, It is impossible, it should be otherwise: So that the Scripture, and those that deny original sin are diametrally opposite one to another: They say, there is no such birth-sin: The Scripture saith, It cannot be, but that there must be such an original contagion.
In the words therefore we have a full and clear Description of that original sin or birth-sinne we are guilty of; Yea the Text saith, It is impossible, it should be otherwise: So that the Scripture, and those that deny original sinne are diametrally opposite one to another: They say, there is no such birth-sinne: The Scripture saith, It cannot be, but that there must be such an original contagion.
In the Text, we have the Interrogation, and the Answer; The Interrogation is therefore put to show the vehemency and peremptoriness in affirming this truth, it's more than if it had been barely said, That none can bring a clean thing out of an unclean; The meaning is, That every man being by nature unclean, it's necessary that every one born of man therefore should be unclean.
In the Text, we have the Interrogation, and the Answer; The Interrogation is therefore put to shew the vehemency and peremptoriness in affirming this truth, it's more than if it had been barely said, That none can bring a clean thing out of an unclean; The meaning is, That every man being by nature unclean, it's necessary that every one born of man therefore should be unclean.
By uncleanness is meant sin, as appeareth by comparing this with Chap. 15. 14. Chap. 25. 4. where you have this expression used, and it is opposed to righteousness, and to be justified before God. It is therefore an uncleanness not natural or bodily (as the Pelagians of old would have wrested it) but spiritually opposite to Righteousness, and such as depriveth a man of Justification: Yea, the word unclean, is applied to signify heinous pollution: Hence the Devils are so often called unclean spirits, so that the Devils and mankind are in this alike.