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An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
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.
The will in the first Act of conversion to God is not an agent, ⟨p. 33⟩but a patient, as it doth appear by this. For,
The affections have by Adams fall received a disorder, and by reason of this disorder they do eschew good; and pursue that which is evil; Rom. 1. 26. 1 Kings 21. 4.
The body by Adam's fall hath received a fitness to begin sin, for it bringeth in all objects and occasions of sin to the Soul; Genes. 3. 6.
And the body hath received a fitness to execute sin, even so soon as the heart thinketh it. Rom. 6. 13. 16.