THis want of freedom to any thing that is good, is seen, In the concupiscen∣tial affection to some creature or other, never being able to lift it self up to God: And certainly, if you ask, Wherein doth the bondage of the will to sin consist? We may in the general say, in its creature affection, so that the will, which while entire and sound did love God as the chiefest good, and all creatures in reference, and with subordination to him, is now so debased that it creepeth upon the ground, and is not able at all to love any thing but it self and the creature; So that now every one taketh up that request Psal. 4, Who will shew us any good? Any temporal good, they desire the Devils offer; So that if he would shew them the glory of the world, and bestow it on them, they would presently fall down and worship: Oh the unhappy and miserable change that sinne hath now made upon the will! being in absolute subjection to every thing that he was made lord over; God put all things under his feet, and now all things have put man under their feet: It's the love of the world, and the things of the world, that is the Iron chain about the will, as that about Nebuchadnezzar's stump of the Tree;
A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is, by pregnant texts of Scripture vindicated from false glosses / by Anthony Burgess.
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- A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is, by pregnant texts of Scripture vindicated from false glosses / by Anthony Burgess.
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- Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.
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- 1658.
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so that it can never lift it self up to what is Heaven: This maketh the will like that woman, who was bowed down with her infirmity, and could not look up, till Christ healed her, and made her straight: This maketh the necessity of a spiri∣tual resurrection, that so we may set our affections upon things above. This love of the world, and the things thereof, is the Summe of all those particular wayes, whereby we are thus wretchedly enslaved; Therefore grace when it com∣eth doth loosen these bonds, and make us free, by working in us a contrary love, and a contrary sweetness and delight; So that now all the world, with the dain∣ties thereof, are but as so many husks in comparison of that manna he now feed∣eth upon; And as he that stedfastly beholds the Sunne for a while, his eyes are so dazeled, that he cannot for a season behold any thing else: Thus when grace hath so sanctified and affected the will, that it findeth no greater sweetness and delight then in holy things, this presently maketh him throw away all those bonds that were upon him.