Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 4, Section 5. Of the Natural Servitude and Bondage of the Will, with a brief Discussion of the Point of Free will. ¶. 1. “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). Hitherto we have been discovering the vast and extensive pollution… Read More The Bondage of the Will
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 4, Section 4. SECT. IV. The Defilement of the Will in its Affections and Properties, or the sinful Adjuncts inseparably cleaving unto it. “So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy” (Romans 9:16). Hitherto… Read More Pollution of the Will by Original Sin
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 4, Section 3. SECT. III. ¶. 1. The Corruption of the Will in all its several Operations. These doctrinal introductions thus abstracted, let us proceed to open this noisome sepulcher, this dead and defiled will, which hath been spiritually dead, not as Lazarus four days, but… Read More The Corruption of the Will in All its Operations
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 4, Sections 1-2. SECT. I. The will is the proper subject and seat of all our sin. “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:13). The original pollution of the… Read More The Nature and Capacity of Man’s Will
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, chapter 3, sections 8-10. SECT. VIII. Wherein the memory of man is polluted. This sure foundation then being said, let us proceed to shew wherein the memory of man is so greatly polluted. Natural Forgetfulness vs. Moral Forgetfulness. First, very remarkably, if you consider all the several… Read More Pollution of the Memory by Original Sin
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, chapter 3, sections 1-7. “Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.” (2 Peter 1:12) The original pollution of the Mind and Conscience hath at large been declared; We… Read More The Nature of Memory and its Weakness
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, chapter 2, section 7. SECT. VII. The Defilement of Conscience when Troubled and Awakened. Hitherto we have been declaring the defilement of conscience naturally by original sin, as it is quiet, stupid, and senseless. The next thing to be done (wherein shall be concluded both this text,… Read More Defilement of a Troubled Conscience
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, chapter 2, section 6. “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.” (Romans 2:1). SECT. VI. The Pollution of Conscience Discovered in Many More Particulars. Although much hath… Read More Pollution of the Conscience With Original Sin
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, chapter 2, sections 4-5. “…their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another” (Romans 2:15). SECT. IV. The Corruption of Conscience in Accusing and Excusing. The next is that even in those actions of conscience which are said to be accusation and excusing will appear… Read More The Corrupt and Counterfeit Conscience
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, chapter 2, sections 2-3. SECT. II. A Discovery of the Pollution of Every Man’s Conscience by Original Sin. The work next in order is to discover the pollution of every man’s conscience by original sin. 1. A Natural Blindness in the Conscience First, there is naturally a… Read More The Conscience Blinded by Original Sin
