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

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE.

A

Actions.

• MEns best Actions carnal, pag. 139
• Bad Actions are not ju∣stified by good intentions, 280
• The will hath not power over all its Acti∣ons. 323

Adam.

• Adam had full power over himself. 20
• Made upright. 23
• Yet free and changeable. ib. 114
• He sinned not after the same manner, that we sinne, against Socinians, ib.
• A common head. 25
• His sin was disobedience. 27
• His sin imputed to all. ib.
• His disobedience makes us sinners by propagation, not by imitation. 28
• He had power to stand. 114
• And to repent and believe, while in in∣nocency, transcendently. ib.
• Deprived by his fall of more, then was meerly supernatural. 118
• And of supernaturals also. ib.
• Had free-will to good before his fall, not after. 119
• Had faith. 120, 128
• Loved God above all, before his fall. ib.
• And delighted in him. 121
• Not made in a neutral indifferent state. 123
• How original righteousnesse was natu∣ral to him. 125
• What was supernatural to Adam, 127
• Had all graces, either actually, or habitually. 128, 129
• Had his affections subject to his mind. 134
• A comparison between the first and second Adam. 181

Affections.

• The pollution of them. 325
• The nature of them. 327
• How variously they may be considered. 328
• Their tyranny over the understanding and will. 329
• Sinfull in their first motions. 330
• And in their progress and degrees. 331
• ...

• And in their duration, and in respect of their objects. 332
• And in respect of their end and use. 333
• And in their motion to lawfull objects. 334
• And in respect of their opposition to one another. 336
• Affections polluted in respect of the con∣flict between them and natural con∣science. 336
• And in their distracting us in duties. 338
• And in their contrariety to the exam∣ple of God. ib.
• How they are in God. 339
• Their dulness toward good. 340
• Drawn to holy duties from corrupt motives. 341
• Zealously drawn out to false wayes. 342
• Inlets to all sin. 343
• The privacy of the Affections. 345
• The hurtfull effects on our own bodies. 346
• And others. 347
• They readily receive temptations. ib.

All.

• All sinfull that come of Adam, sinfull by nature, though the children of the most godly. 394
• And how absurd to exempt any. 400
• God justified for shutting up All under sin for the sin of Adam. 421

Amyraldus.

• Amyraldus and other sense, upon the conflict in Rom. 7. examined. 483

Angels.

• Angels not generated. 196

Appetite.

• Of the three-fold Appetite in man. 158

B

Beleeve.

• NO man can Beleeve by the power of nature. 315

Blasphemies.

• What devilish Blasphemies have been re∣ceived. 219

Body.

• Body of man defiled with sin. 372
• Is not serviceable to the soul in holy approaches, but a clog. 376
• Doth positively affect and defile the soul. 377
• Man acts more according to the inclina∣tions of the Body then the dictates of the mind. ib.
• Its a tempter and seducer. 378
• Doth objectively occasion much sin to the soul. 381
• Its indisposition to serve God. 392
• Easily moved by its passions. 384
• When sanctified it is the temple of God. 385

C

Children.

• CHildren suffer for parents sinnes 46
• Arminians make the Children of Hea∣thens and believers alike. 67
• How soon a Child may commit actual sin. 416

Christ.

• Whether upon Christ's death there be a universal removal of the guilt of ori∣ginal sinne. 539

Combate.

• Combate between the flesh and the spirit. 474

Conflict.

• No spiritual Conflict in the state of integrity. 479
• ...

• Nor is there sense or feeling of any such Conflict in a natural man. 480
• It's in all that are sanctified. 81
• Conflict, the several kinds. 500

Conscience.

• What Conscience is. 223
• Whence quietness of Conscience in un∣regenerate men. 90
• And whence troubles of Conscience in the regenerate. ib.
• Erroneous Conscience ought to be obeyed 224
• Conscience horribly blind and erroneous by nature. 225
• And senslesse. 226
• The defect of Conscience in its offices and actings. 228
• The corruption of Conscience in accusing and excusing. 230
• Of a counterfeit Conscience. 233
• Sinfull lust, fancy and imagination, cu∣stome and education, mistaken for Conscience. ib.
• Conscience severe against other mens sins, blind about its own. 236
• Security of Conscience. 237
• The defilement of Conscience when troubled and awakened. 238
• The difference between a troubled and a regenerate Conscience. 243
• Causes of trouble of Conscience without regeneration. ib.
• False cure of a wounded Conscience. 245

Consent.

• A two-fold Consent of the will, expresse and formal; or interpretative and virtual. 287

Creation.

• Christ had his soul by Creation, and so we have ours. 195

Creature.

• Mans bondage to the Creature. 317

D

Damnation.

• DAmnation due to all for original sinne. 528

Death.

• Death not natural to Adam before sin. 31, 115
• Death and all other miseries come from sin. 173

Devil.

• The Devil cannot compell us to sinne. 15, 114

Difference.

• Difference between original and actual sins. 477

Difficulty.

• Difficulty of turning to God, whence. 478

Doubtings.

• Doubtings, whence. 241

Duties.

• Imperfection in the best Duties. 11
• Of doing Duties for conscience sake. 234

E

Exorcisms.

• EXorcisms used anciently at the Ba∣ptism of Infants. 54

F

Faculties.

• SOme Faculties and imbred principles left in the soul after the fall. 224
• Mans best Faculties corrupted by sinne. 139

Flesh.

• Flesh and spirit in every godly man. 11
• ...

• How the word Flesh is used in Scripture. 139
• Flesh and spirit contrary. ib.

Forgetfulness.

• Forgetfulness natural and moral. 257
• Forgetfulness of sin. 260
• Of usefull examples, and former work∣ings of Gods Spirit. 261
• Of our later end, the day and death, and judgement, and the calamities of the Church. 262

Freedom.

• Several kinds of Freedom. 306
• Freedom from the dominion of sin, whe∣ther it be by suppression or abolishing part of it. 503

G

Grace.

• WHat sanctifying Grace is. 20
• Given not so much to curb actual sin, as to cure the nature. ib.
• Free Grace exalted by the Apostles. 308
• The Doctrine of free Grace unpleasing to flesh and bloud. 310
• The necessity of special Grace to help against temptations. 314

H

Habits.

• THe Habits of sin forbidden, and the Habits of grace required by the Law. 45

Heathens.

• Heathens, how far ignorant of original sin. 168
• Condemn the lustings of the heart. 169

Heresies. Hereticks.

• The Heresies of the Gnosticks, Carpocra∣tians, Montanists and Donatists. 225
• The guilt and craft of Heretiques. 303

I

Jesus Christ.

• JEsus Christ his conception miraculous. 388
• But framed of the substance of the Virgin. 389
• Why called the Son of God. ib.
• Had a real body. ib.
• Born holy and without sin. 390
• How he could be true man, and yet free from sin. 392

Ignorance.

• A universal Ignorance upon a mans understanding. 178, 210

Image.

• Gods Image in Adam not an infused habit or habits, but a natural recti∣tude, or connatural perfection to his nature. 19
• Why called Gods Image. 21

The Image of God in man.

• Reason and understanding one part of it. 113
• Holinesse and righteousnesse another part. ib.
• Power to persevere in holinesse another part. ib.
• A regular subordination of the affecti∣ons to the rule of righteousnes, ano∣ther part. 114
• Primitive glory, honour and immorta∣lity, another part. 115
• Dominion and superiority another part, yet not the only Image of God, as the Socinians falsly. ib.
• How man made in it. 131

Imagination.

• Imagination, its nature. 351
• Its sinfulnesse in making Idols and conceits to please it self. 352
• And in its defect from the end of its

• being. 353
• By its restlesnesse. 355
• By their universality, multitude, disorder, their roving and wan∣dring, their impertinency and unsea∣sonablenesse. 356, 357
• It eclipseth and keeps out the under∣standing. 358
• Conceiveth for the most part all actual transgressions. 359
• Acts sin with delight when there are no external actings. 360
• Its propensity to all evil. 361
• Is continually inventing new sins, or occasions of sin. 362
• Vents its sinfulnesse in reference to the Word, and the preaching of it. 364
• Mind more affected with appearances than realities. 365
• And in respect of fear and the work∣ings of conscience. 366
• And its acting in dreams. 367
• Is not in subordination to the rational part of man. 368
• The instrument in Austins judgment of conveying sin to the child. 368
• Prone to receive the Devils temptati∣ons. 369

Immortal.

• How many wayes a thing may be said to be Immortal. 509
• Of Adams Immortality in the state of innocency. 513

Impossibility.

• Impossibility of mans loosing himself from the creature, and return to God, 371

Infants.

• Infants deserve hell. 7
• Sinners. 29
• Cannot be saved without Christ. 35, 55
• Infant-holinesse, what it is. 56
• Infants defiled with original sin before born. 62

Judgment.

• Whence diversities of Judgment in the things of God. 219

Justification.

• Justification by imputed not inherent righteousnesse. 29

K

Knowing. Known.

• CVriosity and affection in all of Knowing what is not to be Known 184
• Which comes from original sin. 212

L

Law.

• THe Law impossible to be kept. 10
• A Law what. 85
• The Law requireth habitual holinesse. 130
• Forbids lust in the heart. 156

Liberty.

• Liberty of will nothing but voluntari∣nesse or complacency. 132

Lust.

• What Lust is. 155
• How distinguished. 157
• Lust considered according to the four-fold estate of man. 160
• Sinfull Lust utterly extirpated in heaven 161

M

Man.

• MAn by nature out of Gods favour. 117
• Man made to enjoy and glorifie God. 132, 133
• How sin dissolved the harmony of Mans nature. ib.
• Man unable to help himself out of his lost condition. 153
• Through sin it is worse with Man than other creatures. 174
• ...

• The nobler part of Man inslaved to the inferiour. 175
• Man utterly impotent to any spiritual good. 177
• By his fall became like the devil. 183

Memory.

• The pollution of it. 247
• What it is. 250
• A two-fold weaknesse of Memory, na∣tural and sinfull. ib.
• The use and dignity of it. 251
• The nature of it. 253
• Discoveries of its pollution. 253
• Wherein it is polluted. 257
• Wherein it fails in respect of the objects ib.
• Hath much inward vitiosity adhering to it. 263
• Subservient to our corrupt hearts. 265

Mind.

• Whence the vanity and instability of the Mind. 217

Ministry.

• One end of the Ministry. 255

N

Natural.

• EVery Natural man is carnal, in the mysteries of Religion, in religious worship, in religious ordinances, in religious performances. 140, 141
• In spiritual transactions and reli∣gious deportment. 142, 143

Necessity.

• What Necessity is consistent with freedom 312

O

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

P

Pray.

• A Natural man cannot Pray. 314

Pride.

• Pride the cause of most heresies. 218

Propagation.

• Propagation of sin. 397

Punishment.

• The same thing may be a Punishment and a sin. 41

R

Redeemer.

• THe necessity of a Redeemer demon∣strates our thraldom to sin. 319

Reformation.

• A carnal mans Reformation is but the avoiding of one sin by another. 318

Regenerate.

• A sure difference between a Regenerate and unregenerate man. 9

Regeneration.

• Three sorts of mistaken Regeneration. 10

Reliques.

• Reliques of sin. 474

Remember.

• Whence is it that we Remember things when we would not. 266

Righteousness.

• Original Righteousness not given to Adam as a curb to the inferiour facul∣ties. 25
• The difficulty of Rom. 5. 26
• Original Righteousness, the privation of it a sin. 130
• We were deprived of it by Adam. 131
• ...

• Vniversally lost. 135
• The losse of it the cause of all temporal losses. ib.
• The privation of it doth necessarily inferre the presence of all sin in a subject susceptible. 202

S

Sacraments.

• ONe end of the Sacraments. 255

Sanctification.

• Sanctification two fold. 391

Satan.

• All by nature in bondage to Satan. 370

Scripture.

• Scripture discovers us to our selves better then light of nature or Philosophy. 161, 168
• The end of its being written. 253

Self-knowing.

• Self knowing a great duty, and the hinderance of it. 8

Sensless.

• We are altogether Sensless as to any spi∣ritual concernment. 176

Sin.

• A man naturally can do nothing but sin. 15, 16
• The reason why all men do not commit all Sins, though inclinable thereto. 17
• Men lie under a necessity of sinning, yet this necessity is consistent with voluntarinesse. 18
• Sin delightfull to men. 21
• How Sin is natural to us. 24
• Christ only born without Sin, and how. 37. 390
• Sin, is what sense voluntary. 38
• When a punishment, how from God. 42
• One Sin may suddenly and formally de∣prive the subject of all grace, yet it doth not so alwayes. 58
• Three sorts of Sin, original, habitual and actual. 89
• The first motions of the heart, though never so involuntary and indeliberate, are sinfull. 94
• All Sin is potentially and seminally in every mans heart. 103
• Every man would commit all Sin, if not restrained. 147
• Sin rightly divided into original and actual. 164
• Whence it comes to passe that men commit known Sins. 227
• Why men chuse Sin rather than affliction. 283
• Every man lieth under a necessity of sinning. 311

Sinners.

• To be made a Sinner by Adam is more than to be made subject to death as a curse. 31
• And more than to be obnoxious to eternal wrath. ib.
• All mad: truly and properly Sinners by Adam. 31, 34
• Every man, Christ excepted. 387, 393

Socinians.

• Wherein Socinians do make God the au∣thor of sin. 66
• Socinians and Papists blasphemy 114
• Socinians deny both original sin, and original righteousnesse 121
• The rocks they stumble at. ib. & 122

Soul.

• The arguments of those that hold the Souls traduction. 197
• Souls not by eduction or traduction, but creation and introduction. 191
• Soul not generated. 189
• Souls created. 194
• Origen and Plato's opinion of the Soul. 186
• Confuted. 187
• The Soul cannot be neutral. 130
• ...

• Inclined to earthly objects. 175
• Souls not created before the bodies. 187
• Souls come not into the world pure and holy. ib.
• Souls not perfect substances. 200
• The Soul infused by creating, and crea∣ted by infusing. 21
• How it comes to be infected. 393

T

Taylor.

• A Character of Doctor J. Taylor. 30
• He is answered in these places. 62, 398, 407, 409, 422, 430, 449, 450, 452, 461, 476, 485, 518 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 527, 528, 534, 535

V

Vanity.

• OF the natural Vanity of our minds 213

Virgin.

• Virgin Mary born in original sin. 398

Uncleanness.

• A three-fold Uncleanness, corporal, ceremonial and moral. 50

Understanding.

• Our Understandings very weak in respect of natural things. 179, 219
• And uncapable of holy and spi∣ritual things. 212

Voluntariness.

• Voluntariness not requisite to every sin. 39

W

Wickedness.

• OF the extream Wickedness of the world. 172

Will. Willeth.

• No man Willeth sin, and damnation, as such. 38
• Adams Will, how ours. 39
• The Nature of the Will. 270
• The difference between the Will and un∣derstanding. 271
• Will, taken ambiguonsly. 272
• The Will the seat of obedience and disobe∣dience. 273
• Good, is the proper object of the Will. ib.
• The several operations of the Will. 274
• The difference between a wicked mans, and a good mans doing what he al∣lows not. 88
• Free Will, how far we are deprived of it. 116
• The corruption of the Will in volition. 275
• And in efficacious Willing a thing. 276
• And in fruition. 277
• And in its act of intention. 279
• And in election. 282
• Whence it is that the Will is backward to to follow the understanding. 284
• The pollution of the Will in its act of consent. 286
• The first motions of the Will are evil. ib.
• The pollution of the Will in its affections and properties. 289
• The degeneracy of the Will. 293
• The Will wholly perverted about the ul∣timate end. ib.
• The Will naturally inclineth to be inde∣pendent on God. 295
• The contumacy and refractoriness of the Will. 297
• The enmity and contrariety of the Will to Gods will. 298
• ...

• The rebellion of the Will against the light of the mind, and the slavery of it to the sensitive part. 299
• The mutability and inconstancy of the Will. 300
• The bondage of the Will, and of free will. 302
• No man before grace hath free will to good. 305
• The Will impotent to spiritual things. 313
• Free will, how call'd in Scripture. 307
• Exalted by erroneous persons. 308
• The different effects of free will and free grace in mens lives. 310
• The difficulty of the question. 311
• Demonstrations against it. ib.
• The definitions and descriptions of it. 320
• Doth not consist in an active indiffe∣rency to good or evil. 321

FINIS.