Richard Baxter Practical Works vol. 2, pp. 469-472 Directions against Sinful Dreams. Dreams are neither good nor sinful simply in themselves, because they are not rational and voluntary, nor in our power: but they are often made sinful by some other voluntary act: they may be sinful by participation and consequently. And the acts that… Read More Directions Against Sinful Dreams
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 2, section 1. “But even their mind, and conscience is defiled.” (Titus 1:15). Hitherto we have been discovering original sin as seated in the understanding, the metropolis (as it were) of the soul. We now proceed to manifest it as polluting the conscience of every man… Read More The Nature of Conscience and its Corruption
Anthony Burgess, Treatise on Original Sin, Part 3, chapter 1, section 4. “And be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind.” (Ephesians 4:23). These things premised, let us consider, wherein original sin hath infected the minds of all men, so that in respect thereof it is to be renewed. 1. Horrible Ignorance of… Read More Pollution of the Mind With Original Sin
Ephesians 4:17-24 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given… Read More The Extent of Original Sin in Every Faculty of the Soul
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