A30247:541
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. III.
More Advantages accruing from the Belief and Meditation of this Truth.
First, The man who deeply considers this, he will dwell at home much, he will much commune with his own heart, his work will be to rectify his inwards much, to attend more to his heart-work. Alas, how many do you see spend all their time in disputes about Religion in quarrellings and strifes about this opinion, and that opinion, whereas if he were deeply sensible of that wound upon him by original sin, and how his whole soul is out of order, he would presently give over that way, he would say, I have greater work in hand, I have more necessary business to do? If a mans house were on fire, he would give over any disputes he had with his neighbour, and go presently to quench that: Thus the Pilot, when the ship is leaking, he would not attend to needless cavils, and in the mean time endanger his Ship; when thy vitals, yea thy very heart is diseased, thou standest disputing about the cure of thy fingers end: Oh how much better were it to be searching into your hearts, diving into the bottom thereof, then to spend thy time in useless disputes!
FIrst, The man who deeply considers this, he will dwell at home much, he will much commune with his own heart, his work will be to rectifie his inwards much, to attend more to his heart-work. Alas, how many do you see spend all their time in disputes about Religion in quarrellings and strises about this opinion, and that opinion, whereas if he were deeply sensible of that wound upon him by original sinne, and how his whole soul is out of order, he would presently give over that way, he would say, I have greater work in hand, I have more necessary business to do? If a mans house were on fire, he would give over any disputes he had with his neighbour, and go presently to quench that: Thus the Pilot, when the ship is leaking, he would not attend to needless cavils, and in the mean time endanger his Ship; when thy vitals, yea thy very heart is diseased, thou standest disputing about the cure of thy fingers end: Oh how much better were it to be searching into your hearts, diving into the bottom thereof, then to spend thy time in useless disputes!