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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. II.
Having therefore hitherto showed the Quod sit of original sin, That there is such a thing, maugre all adversaries, and that by the mouth of two witnesses out of the New Testament, and two out of the Old (not but that there are many more, only I shall (God willing) treat on them upon some different notions.) I now come to inform you of the Quid sit, What it is; for here is much opposition likewise; And because in knowing what a thing is, there is the Quid nominis, and Quid rei, what the name is, and what the thing is.
HAving therefore hitherto shewed the Quod sit of original sinne, That there is such a thing, maugre all adversaries, and that by the mouth of two witnesses out of the New Testament, and two out of the Old (not but that there are many more, only I shall (God willing) treat on them upon some different notions.) I now come to inform you of the Quid sit, What it is; for here is much opposition likewise; And because in knowing what a thing is, there is the Quid nominis, and Quid rei, what the name is, and what the thing is.
I shall first begin with what the Name is, for that way Socrates did use to commend, from the name to go to the nature of a thing: And whereas this native-pollution hath Scripture names, Ecclesiastical, used by the Fathers, and Scholastical used by the Schoolmen, yea the Rabbins say, it hath seven names in the Old Testament. I shall only pitch on the Bible names, and that not universally, but upon some eminent and chief ones, which it hath in the Scripture, from which alone we shall be best able to discern the nature of it.
I shall first beginne with what the Name is, for that way Socrates did use to commend, from the name to go to the nature of a thing: And whereas this native-pollution hath Scripture names, Ecclesiastical, used by the Fathers, and Scholastical used by the Schoolmen, yea the Rabbins say, it hath seven names in the Old Testament. I shall only pitch on the Bible names, and that not universally, but upon some eminent and chief ones, which it hath in the Scripture, from which alone we shall be best able to discern the nature of it.