A30247:612
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.
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.
The first whereof is here in the Text, wherein it is called the Old man; From whence observe,1
- 1Observ.
That the natural or birth-pollution we are barn in, is called by the Scripture, The Old man that is in us.