A30247:537
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.
A second Objection is, 1That what David saith here is hyperbolical. Thus the Socinians, David doth not mean, as if he were born in sin, but doth hyperbolically aggravate his wickedness, in that from his youth up he did quickly fall into sin, and they compare two places (amongst others) Psal. 58. 3. Isa. 48. 8. where wicked men are said to be transgressors from the womb.
A second Objection is, 1That what David saith here is hyperbolical. Thus the Socinians, David doth not mean, as if he were born in sinne, but doth hyperbolically aggravate his wickedness, in that from his youth up he did quickly fall into sinne, and they compare two places (amongst others) Psal. 58. 3. Isa. 48. 8. where wicked men are said to be transgressors from the womb.
- 1Object.
But first,1 Seeing David intends to abhor himself before God, there is no sense to go from the plain words, otherwise we might turn all the Scripture into tropes and figures, and so make no certainty at all; And as for those two places, they confirm this Text, for how come men to be transgressors from the womb, to act wickedness so early, to sin as soon as ever they are able to act any thing? Doth not all this demonstrate they were born in sin?
But first,