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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.
1. By an interrogation, How can ye?
2. By the impossibility, How can ye?
3. From the matter mentioned: he doth not say, How can ye being evil do good things, but speak; We might think wicked men might easily forbear evil words, though not evil actions, but their heart is first set on fire with hell, and then the tongue. The Physician discovers how the heart is by the tongue, and so doth Religion also. Now that good words cannot proceed from a bad heart, viz. naturally (for on purpose, and artificially many evil-minded men, may speak religiously, and men may have butter words, whose hearts are like swords) our Saviour proveth from the common and even proverbial rule; A good man hath a good heart, and a good treasure, and so of this sweet fountain cannot come bitter streams. But a bad man hath an evil treasure in his heart, and so from these thorns men cannot gather grapes, nor from these thistles figs; we see here then a good man and a bad, diversified by that which is wholly hidden and secret, not known to any, but God, till he discover it by words or actions. Now this evil treasure in every mans heart is two-fold,
3. From the matter mentioned: he doth not say, How can ye being evil de good things, but speak; We might think wicked men might easily forbear evil words, though not evil actions, but their heart is first set on fire with hell, and then the tongue. The Physician discovers how the heart is by the tongue, and so doth Religion also. Now that good words cannot proceed from a bad heart, viz. naturally (for on purpose, and artificially many evil-minded men, may speak religiously, and men may have butter words, whose hearts are like swords) our Saviour proveth from the common and even proverbial rule; A good man hath a good heart, and a good treasure, and so of this sweet fountain cannot come bitter streams. But a bad man hath an evil treasure in his heart, and so from these thorns men cannot gather grapes, nor from these thistles figs; we see here then a good man and a bad, diversified by that which is wholly hidden and secret, not known to any, but God, till he discover it by words or actions. Now this evil treasure in every mans heart is two-fold,