A30247:719
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.
2. There is the Root and cause of this, expressed in that phrase, The sin that doth so easily beset us, [Greek or Hebrew], the word is but once used, and that in this place, it's a two fold compound, and so the more emphatical, [Greek or Hebrew], which is as much here as easy, and [Greek or Hebrew], so that it is a sin which besetteth and compasseth us about, and that very easily, it finds no resistance, neither have we any power to withstand it.
2. There is the Root and cause of this, expressed in that phrase, The sinne that doth so easily beset us, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the word is but once used, and that in this place, it's a two fold compound, and so the more emphatical, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which is as much here as easie, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, so that it is a sinne which besetteth and compasseth us about, and that very easily, it finds no resistance, neither have we any power to withstand it.
Some understand this of actual sins, but not only Protestant Interpreters, but even some Papists also; Ribera and others understand it of Concupiscence within us; The word is made a Metaphor several ways; Erasmus renders it, Tenaciter adhaerentem, That sin which doth so tenaciously adhere to us, making ⟨p. 97⟩it an Allusion to Ezekiel Chap. 24. where there is a Pot set on the fire, yet all the fire and burning cannot get off the rust and filth that cleaveth to it. Grotius makes it to respect Lament. 1. 14. where there are yokes and bands mentioned about the neck, which are impediments to the beast in his going.
Some understand this of actual sinnes, but not only Protestant Interpreters, but even some Papists also; Ribera and others understand it of Concupiscence within us; The word is made a Metaphor several wayes; Erasmus renders it, Tenaciter adhaerentem, That sinne which doth so tenaciously adhere to us, making