A30247:682
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.
Why Original Corruption is called, The Inherent or In-dwelling Sin.
Why Original Corruption is called, The Inherent or In-dwelling Sinne.
This premised, Let us consider, why original corruption is called the Inherent and In-dwelling Sin, and that even in a godly man.
THis premised, Let us consider, why original corruption is called the Inherent and In-dwelling Sinne, and that even in a godly man.
And first, The Apostle calls it, the sin, ([Greek or Hebrew]) Because of the propriety, and proper right it hath to us. As a man is said to dwell in his house, because he hath a right to it, and it is his own: This original sin is in every man, as in its proper place, as the stone doth rest in its centre, and will not move further; So that as hell is said to be the proper place of Judas. He went (saith the Text) to his own place; Thus is the heart and soul of a man, the proper and fit subject for all the natural impiety that cleaveth to us; and therefore, though the Devil be also said, To rule in the hearts of wicked men, he dwells also in them, as well as sin, for which he is compared to an armed man, keeping the house; yet this is more extrinsical, and from without; The Devil could not find a room ready swept and garnished for him, but because of this native pollution: Hence the Apostle doth not in this Chapter complain of the Devil, but sin dwelling in him; He doth not say, I would do good, but the Devil hinders me (though that be sometimes true) but sin dwelling in him.