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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Original Sinne.

• THe necessity of knowing it. 1
• The term ambiguously used; and how taken in this Treatise. ib.
• That there is such a natural con∣contagion on all. 2
• Why called Original sin. 5
• Denial of it, the mother of many errors 6
• The cause of all miseries. 7
• Worse than actual. 8
• Ignorance thereof the cause why men understand not the work of conver∣sion. 9
• Inseparably adheres to the best. 11
• A natural evil, and how; with the several names it hath had. 13
• The difilement of our specifical being. 14
• The inward principle of all sinfull motions. ib.
• Flacius his opinion concerning it. ib.
• Is alwayes putting it self forth. 16
• Neerer to us than actual or habitual sin. 18
• What it is. 19, 20
• Why compared to death. 21
• Objections answered. 22
• Pelagians and Socinians opinion of it. 28
• Propagated. ib.
• Is an internal and natural depravati∣on of the whole man. 32
• Adams sin imputed to us, is not all our Original sin. ib.
• Of that opinion, that Original sinne is vitium, but not peccatum. 33
• Truly and properly a sin. 34
• Against the Law. 35
• How voluntary. 39
• Arminius and the Remonstrants disa∣gree about Original sin. 40
• Arminius, Remorstrants, Zuinglius, Papists, Scotists, and Socinians opinions of it. 40
• A sin, a punishment, and a cause of sin. 41
• Original inherent sin, and Adams imputed sin are two distinct sins. 43
• Against the Law, and how. 44 45
• Acknowledged in Old Testament times 48
• Remonstrants confess it may be proved by two or three places of Scripture. ib.
• ...

• Compared to a leprosie. 51
• Makes us leathsom to God as soon as born. 52
• Why called uncleanness. ib.
• Should make us vile in our own eyes. ib.
• Put a man by nature into worse con∣dition than beasts. 53
• Makes us like the Devils. ib.
• Pollutes our duties, and makes us unfit and unworthy to draw nigh to God in duties. 54
• Makes us to be in the most imme∣diate contrariety to God that can be. ib.
• The denial of it charged upon Calvin∣ists by the Lutherans. 56
• Acknowledged by the Rabbins and Fathers. 62
• Meditation thereon, wherein advanta∣gious. 64
• Not one universal thing of general influence, but a particular thing in particular men. 65
• To be bewailed, even by those that are regenerate. ib.
• A two-fold Original sin. 66
• The different opinions of men about humiliation for it. 67
• In what sense it is to be repented of. 68
• Papists against sorrow for it. 69
• Several opinions concerning the pardon of it. 67, 68, 69
• Wherein repentance and the pardon of Original and actual sin do differ. 70
• It is an universal defilement. 71
• And an universal guilt. ib.
• And the fountain and root of all actual sin. ib.
• And the greatest sin. 72
• Inseparable from our natures, while we live. 73
• Of the Scripture names of it. 79
• Not the essence or substance of the soul ib.
• Why called the old man. 80
• Improperly called a Law. 83
• Why called a Law. 84
• Instructs a man in all evil ib.
• Inclineth and provoketh to all evil. ib.
• Compelleth to all evil. 85
• Why called the inherent or in-dwelling sin. 90
• How it dwels in the regenerate. ib.
• Active, and ever stirring. 94
• Is of an insinuating and contamina∣ting nature. 95
• Depriveth both of power and will to do good. 97, 98
• Inclines the heart to the creature. 98
• Resisteth all profers of grace. 99
• Weakens the principles of grace. 100
• Why called a treasure. 102
• An inexhausted stock. 103
• The cause of all pleasure in sin. 104
• Called a body and why. 105 107
• Shews it self outwardly in all our actions. 107
• Cannot be mortified without pain. ib.
• A reality, yet not a substance. 108
• Not a single sin, but a lump of all evil. ib.
• Inclineth only to carnal, earthly, and bodily things. 109
• Seth born in Original sinne. 110, 111
• Deprives of more than external hap∣piness and immortality, against So∣cinians. 117
• Many Papists deny the positive part of it. 136
• Hath infected all men. 137
• Positive as well as privative. 144
• And the reasons thereof. 145
• Produceth positive sinfull actions. 146
• Sticks closer then vicious habits. ib.
• Not a pestilential quality in the body. 149
• Is properly concupiscence or lust. 157
• And in what sense. 159
• And why so called. 162
• It is ignorant also. ib.
• Defined. 164
• The whole man, and the whole of man the subject thereof. ib.
• Propagated and communicated to all Adams posterity. 165
• ...

• Truly known only by Scripture-light. 167
• How farre Heathens were ignorant thereof. 168
• The propagation thereof by the souls creation. 199
• Hath fill'd us with errour. 211
• And with curiosity. 212
• And vanity. 213
• And folly. 214
• Polluting the conscience, how, and wherein. 221
• Polluteth the memory. 249
• Polluteth the will. 268
• The affections. 325
• The imagination. 348
• The body of a man 392
• And every one of mankind. 387
• Not the children of the most godly, or the Virgin Mary excepted, but only Christ, 387. to 401
• Original sin imputed, the aggrava∣tions of it. 405
• Inherent; the aggravation of it. 407
• It defiles all the parts of the soul, is the root and cause of all actual sin, is incurable, taketh away all spiri∣tual sense and feeling, is habitual, radicated in the soul. 407. to 410
• Objections against the hainousnesse of this sin: Every one hath his proper Original sin. 412
• Vents it self betimes. 415
• Is alike in all. 419
• The immediate effects of Original sinne are mans propensity to sin. 437. to 455
• Is the cause of all other sine. 455
• Evil motions not consented unto, and lusts consented unto. 464
• The combat between the flesh and spirit 474
• Death. 505
• Eternal damnation. 526