A30247:471
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.
TO inform us of this Doctrinal Truth, we may first take notice of a threefold impurity or uncleanness.
1. That which is corporal and bodily, man being born so loathsomely, that even the Heathens have abhorred themselves, because of it, when they came into the world: it did so debase them, that even the highest did refuse those hyperbolical honours, which their flatterers would have put upon them. In the sixteenth of Ezekiel you have this bodily filthiness at large described, and thereby is represented the uncomely and impotent condition of the Church of Israel in her Infancy, to promote her own welfare, no more than a little Infant new born is able to help it self; Yea this place is allusively brought by some to describe our spiritual uncleanness: The child comes not more naked and polluted into the world bodily, then the soul doth spiritually, being denuded of the Image of God, and full of spiritual ulcers and fores, like a Job full of botches, like a Lazarus all over spiritually ulcerous, though few take notice of this, and lay it to heart.
1. That which is corporal and bodily, man being born so loathsomly, that even the Heathens have abhorred themselves, because of it, when they came into the world: it did so debase them, that even the highest did refuse those hyperbolical honours, which their flatterers would have put upon them. In the sixteenth of Ezekiel you have this bodily filthiness at large described, and thereby is represented the uncomely and impotent condition of the Church of Israel in her Infancy, to promote her own welfare, no more than a little Infant new born is able to help it self; Yea this place is allusively brought by some to describe our spiritual uncleanness: The child comes not more naked and polluted into the world bodily, then the soul doth spiritually, being denuded of the Image of God, and full of spiritual ulcers and fores, like a Job full of botches, like a Lazarus all over spiritually ulcerous, though few take notice of this, and lay it to heart.