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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.
The Ends for which God made Man, lost by the loss of Original Righteousness.
The Ends for which God made Man, lost by the losse of Original Righteousnesse.
First, The loss of this righteousness doth deprive us of the end for which God made us: So that whereas before sin God looked on Adam, and saw he was exceeding good, after his fall he seeth him to be exceeding evil, and full of sin: Let us instance in some choice ends for which God made man in his own Image thus with righteousness and holiness. As
FIrst, The losse of this righteousness doth deprive us of the end for which God made us: So that whereas before sinne God looked on Adam, and saw he was exceeding good, after his fall he seeth him to be exceeding evil, and full of sinne: Let us instance in some choice ends for which God made man in his own Image thus with righteousness and holiness. As
1. Therefore was he made thus holy, To have communion with, and enjoyment of so holy a God. When God had made all the creatures, yet he saith, There was not a meet help and comfort for him, one in his own Image and likeness; therefore he makes a woman of the same nature with him; yet still among all creatures, though we add Angels to them, there was not an adequate and sufficient object to fill his heart with delight, therefore God was his utmost end: So that although he had Paradise, a place of delight to live in; Though his state was not capable of any misery or fear from the creature, yet that which was Adam's happiness was to enjoy God in these: Now who can bewail our loss in this respect? We are now propense to the contrary end of our Creation; we wholly descend downwards, who were made to ascend upwards; Adam found the favour of God in all the creatures: It was not this or that comfort, but God in and by them that did draw out his heart: But oh the misery and captivity we are in to self-love, to the love of the creature! Neither are we able by nature to lift up the heart above them to God in them, no more than the worm can fly like an Eagle towards Heaven: Oh groan under this, and say, My heart was not once such a lump of earth, such an heavy stone, as now I find it: There was not then any such complaints heard; Lord, I can love Paradise, I can love my wife, but I cannot love thee, but the clean contrary! I love them, because I love thee, and I could not love them, but because I love thee! This Captivity and bondage our souls are in to the creature, should make us mourn more grievously than ever the Israelites did under the Egyptians oppression: What a shame is it to have a body that looketh upward to Heaven, and a soul that looketh downward to earth? How doth the constitution of thy body agree with the condition of thy soul? Thy face is upward, Os homini sublime dedit, Coelumque tueri. But thy soul, that is pressed down in all its propensions and affections to the creatures,