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.
Author
Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.
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London :: [s.n.],
1658.
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Sin, Original.
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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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30247.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2024.
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SECT. V.
THe other Objections will come in seasonably from other Texts; I shall
therefore dismiss this Verse and Doctrine, with a vehement intreaty, not
to let the meditation of this Truth go out of your hearts, till it hath humbled you
in the dust, till you look upon your selves as filthy and abominable, worse than
any Toads or Serpents: What is it a light matter, to have a nature that is all the
day long, either in thought, word or deed offending God? Your natural evil is
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more to be deplored, in some sense, than all your actual evil; for as long as this
spring is, there will alwayes be polluted streams: Many things may humble and
debase us, as men, but this is the Goliahs Sword, none like this to pierce and cut
at the very heart, even that we are naturally evil.
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