A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is, by pregnant texts of Scripture vindicated from false glosses / by Anthony Burgess.

SECT. I.

EPHES. 2. 3.

And were by nature the children of wrath, as well as others.

THE true Doctrine of Original Corruption is of so great concernment, that Austin thought, De Pec∣cato Orig. contra Pelag. & Celest. 2. cap. 24. the Summe of Religion to consist in knowing of this, as the effect of the first Adam, and also of Christ the second Adam with all his glorious benefits. Though therefore Coelestius of old thought it to be but Rec∣quaestionis, not fides, Ibidem cap. 4. And others of late have wholly rejected it, as Austin's figment, yet certainly the true way of Humiliation for sinne, or Justification by Christ, cannot be firmly established, unless the true Doctrine of this be laid as a Foundation-stone in the building.

Now because original sinne is used ambiguously by Divines, sometimes for Adam's first sinne imputed unto us, (for, Omnes homines fuerunt ille unus homo) he was the common Person representing all mankind, as is in time to be shewed; And this for distinction sake, is called, Originale originans, or Originale impu∣tatum; And sometimes it's taken passively for the effect of that first sinne of Adam, viz. The total and universal pollution of all mankind inherently through sinne, which is called Originale originatum, or inherens.

I shall treat of it in this later acception, as being of great practical improve∣ment many wayes.