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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.
Why Divines make Original Sin to have its Positive as well as Privative Part.
Why Divines make Original Sinne to have its Positive as well as Privative Part.
The Reason, why our Divines make original sin to have its Positive as well as Privative part, is to obviate that error of the Papists, who supposing original righteousness to be only by way of a bridle in Adam to curb and subjugate the inferior part to the superior of the soul, when Adam lost this, they conceive mankind, hath not any further pollution upon it, but that mere loss; Insomuch that they say, Man is now as if God had created him in his pure naturals without any supernaturals. The Socinians likewise, they deny any such pollution, and make us to be born in the same condition Adam was created in (death as a punishment only accepted) merely without either sin or righteousness, like Aristotle's, Obrasa Tabula, in a neutral indifferent way. Now to confront such dangerous opinions, we say, That by our birth-sin, we are not only deprived of Gods Image, but are in an habitual inclination to all evil, which is also active and repugnant to all good.
THe Reason, why our Divines make original sinne to have its Positive as well as Privative part, is to obviate that errour of the Papists, who supposing original righteousness to be only by way of a bridle in Adam to curb and subjugate the inferiour part to the superiour of the soul, when Adam lost this, they conceive mankind, hath not any further pollution upon it, but that meer losse; Insomuch that they say, Man is now as if God had created him in his pure naturals without any supernaturals. The Socinians likewise, they deny any such pollution, and make us to be born in the same condition Adam was created in (death as a punishment only accepted) meerly without either sinne or righteousnesse, like Aristotles, Obrasa Tabula, in a neutral indifferent way. Now to confront such dangerous opinions, we say, That by our birth-sinne, we are not only deprived of Gods Image, but are in an habitual inclination to all evil, which is also active and repugnant to all good.