FIrst, The Body is not now instrumental and serviceable to the soul in holy ap∣proaches to God, but is a clog and burden; whereas to Adam abiding in the state of innocency, the body was exceeding usefull to glorifie God with. The body was as wings to the soul, or as wheels to the chariot, though weighty in themselves, yet they do ableviate and help to motion: They are both Onera and adjumenta, oneranda exonerant: Thus did the body to Adam's soul, but now such is the usefulness, yet the hinderance of the body to the souls operati∣ons, that the very Heathens have complained of it, calling it Carcer animae, and Sepulchrum animae, the prison of the soul, the very grave of the soul, as if the soul were buried in the body: How much more may Christianity com∣plain of this weight of the body, while it is to runne its race to Heaven. Me∣zenius is noted for a cruel fact of binding dead bodies to live men, that so by the noisom stink of those carkasses the men tied to them might at last die a mise∣rable death; Truly by this may be represented original sinne not fully purged away by sanctification; The godly do complain of this body of sinne, as a noi∣som carkass joyned to them, and with Paul cry out, Wretched men that we are, who shall deliver us from this bondage?
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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It is not now Instrumental and serviceable to the Soul in holy Approches to
God, but is a clog and burden.