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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30247	A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is, by pregnant texts of Scripture vindicated from false glosses / by Anthony Burgess.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1658 (1658)	Wing B5660; ESTC R36046	726,398	610

of it neither are we to humble our selves because of it Secondly Others there are that though they hold it to be a sinne yet they say it was absolutely forgiven in Baptism and if it was then totally forgiven what necessity is thereof confession and acknowledging it afterwards That original sinne was forgiven to all that were baptized was the opinion of Austin who yet did more earnestly propugn this Doctrine of original sinne than any of the Fathers Yea in his time these two seemed to be Catholick Doctrines of the whole Church viz. an universal efficacy of Baptism in all Infants baptized to purge away original sinne as also the necessity of damnation of those Infants which died without it The Papists also they generally conclude That this original sinne is forgiven to all baptized persons and Socinus in his Exposition of this place approveth this Position That it is not to be confessed Yea it cannot be denied but that some learned Protestants adversaries both to Papists and Arminians as Davenant Ward have affirmed also That all baptized persons have their original sinne forgiven them and so dying in their infancy must without doubt be saved Thirdly There are others and such are the Remonstrants who affirm That upon Adam's fall God entring into a new Covenant of Grace with fallen mankind by Christ our Mediator Therefore it is they say that none is damned for original sinne no not Heathens or their children but that by the second Adam viz. Christ there is taken off all that guilt which came by Adam's transgression So that in this respect they make the children of Heathens and believers all alike So that by these mens Positions though going upon several grounds we see it affirmed That original sinne is pardoned and that before there is any confession humiliation and sorrow for it Whether indeed though it be pardoned some of the fore-mentioned Authors will not hold it necessary to confess it and to beg for the pardon of it may well be doubted I say some of them For how prophanely and arrogantly doth a Remonstrant Adolphus Venator in his Apologia contra Ministros Dordracenos speak in this matter as he is cited by Sandaus the Jesuite for I have not the Book it self in his Hydrus Hollanda lib. 2. cap. 20. pag. 268. where when from the diversity of opinions about original sinne he concludeth There is scarce any certainty about it addeth Etiam hinc intelligi potest nihil esse quia nemo in se reperiat morsum conscientiae vel accusationem suiipsius ob peccatum ante quinquies mille quingentos annos in Paradiso comissum Ego saltem non sensi nec credo Derdracenes fratres propter illud vel ingentem conscientiae stimulum persensisse vel copiam lachrymarum profudisse How wretchedly doth this man speak Certainly David and Paul had other apprehensions of this original sinne with the immediate effects thereof For the Orthodox hold against the Antinomians That though our sins be pardoned yet we may yea ought upon special occasions to confess them and to renew our humiliation again for them as David prayeth God would not remember the sinnes of his youth and here in this Psalm he prayeth to be purged and washed which relateth to all that uncleanness both original and actual he had formerly confessed Thus Paul also doth several times with humiliation and self-debasement make mention of his former persecutions and blasphemies he had been guilty of Fourthly Whatsoever may be the opinions of men about this sinne either denying it wholly or making it universally pardoned to all mankind or at least to some when baptized of which more is to be said when we treat of the effects of original sinne Yet from this example of David and from other Texts of Scripture we see It is our duty as long as we live in this world to groan under it and bewail our miserable condition because of it SECT VIII Repentance may be taken either largely or strictly LEt therefore David's example here in the Text be more to thee than what ten thousand cavillers may say unto thee onely you must know that when we speak of sorrow and repentance about this sinne we may take repentance largely or strictly for any kind of holy sorrow and humiliaton of soul and that because God is displeased with us because we have that which is contrary to his holy Law and so is offensive to him and damnable to us and in this respect we are in a deep measure to humble our selves for original sinne as being a most grievous and hainous sinne the guilt whereof would press us into the lowest hell did not Gods grace interpose or else it may be strictly taken for a change of our mind or an alteration of that purpose and will we once had Now in this strict sense though it be our duty with sorrow to be humbled for original sinne yet we cannot be properly said to repent of it because it was not a sinne ever committed by us personally or through our own actual will So that although we may not so properly it may be exhort men to repent of this original sinne yet we must press them to a deep and daily humiliation under it and that not as a punishment or an affliction only but as a true and proper sin So that as without confession and sorrow no actual sinne will be forgiven unto a man so neither will original sinne and therefore we do by consequence in the Lords Prayer when we say Forgive us our sinnes pray not onely for the pardon of actual sinnes but original also whatsoever the Remonstrants say neither is their Argument against it of any worth when they say then the meaning likewise is in the clause following That we forgive men their trespasses and their original corruption against us for the comparison lieth not in the Nature of the sins but the manner of forgiveness otherwise when the Church prayeth for the pardon of Idolatry or any sinne against the first Table adding As we forgive others the meaning should be As we forgive them their Idolatries or sins against the first Table which would be absurd and blasphemous Besides we are not onely to forgive the actual trespasses of those who wrong us but even their thoughts and inclinations to hate us If therefore original sinne be a sinne and will damn us without Christs bloud and Gods gracious pardon thereby then we pray for the pardon of 〈◊〉 in the Lords Prayer and we are all our life long because of the reliques of it in us to humble ourselves because of it And although because Wallaeus an eminent Divine spake of Reliquiae peccats originalis The Remonstrants call it an absurd phrase For what is meant say they by these reliques of original sinne either actual sinnes or original If original why then are they called the reliques of it Yet we may say The phrase is very proper for it supposeth original sinne not to be wholly extinct