Can Christians have assurance of salvation? The Westminster Confession (18:1) states “such as truly believe in the Lord Jesus, and love him in sincerity, endeavoring to walk in all good conscience before him, may in this life be certainly assured that they are in a state of grace, and may rejoice in the hope of… Read More Theological Certainty: Assurance of Salvation
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 7. Of the last Subject of Inhesion, or Seat of Original Sin, the Body of a Man. “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord… Read More Pollution of the Body by Original Sin
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 6, Sections 1-20. “And God saw that every imagination of the thoughts of mans heart was only evil, and that continually.” (Genesis 6:5). SECT. I. This Text explained and vindicated against D. J. Taylor, Grotius, the Papists and Socinians. We have at large discovered the universal… Read More The Sinfulness of the Imagination
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 5, Sections 9-19. “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” (Colossians 3:2). SECT. IX. The Pollution of the Affections in respect of the Conflict between the natural Conscience and Them. Again, the great and notorious pollution of the affections doth appear… Read More Pollution of the Affections by Original Sin
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 5, Sections 1-8. “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” (Colossians 3:2). This Text opened. The exceeding great pollution of the will by Original Sin being largely discovered, both in the acts of it, as also in its state. We now… Read More The Nature and Corruption of the Affections
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
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