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A Treatise of Original Sin · Anthony Burgess

A Treatise of Original Sin, Index

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE.

A

Actions.

MEns beſt Actions carnal, pag. 139

Bad Actions are not juſtified by good intentions, 280

The will hath not power over all its Actions. 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 innocency, 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 natural 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 conflict between them and natural conſcience. 336

And in their diſtracting us in duties. 338

And in their contrariety to the example 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 received. 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 inclinations 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 Heathens 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 original 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 unregenerate 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, cuſtome 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 Baptiſm 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 workings 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, whether 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, Carpocratians, 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 rectitude, 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 affections to the rule of righteouſnes, another part. 114

Primitive glory, honour and immortality, 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 wandring, their impertinency and unſeaſonableneſſe. 356, 357

It eclipſeth and keeps out the underſtanding. 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 workings 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 temptations. 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 voluntarineſſe 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, natural 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 religious 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 concontagion 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 converſion. 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 depravation 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 diſagree 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 condition 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 immediate contrariety to God that can be. ib.

The denial of it charged upon Calviniſts by the Lutherans. 56

Acknowledged by the Rabbins and Fathers. 62

Meditation thereon, wherein advantagious. 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 contaminating 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 happineſs and immortality, againſt Socinians. 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 aggravations 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 ſpiritual 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 demonſtrates 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 faculties. 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 ſpiritual 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 deprive 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 author 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 created 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 spiritual 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 underſtanding. 271

Will, taken ambiguonſly. 272

The Will the ſeat of obedience and diſobedience. 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 allows 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 ultimate end. ib.

The Will naturally inclineth to be independent 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 indifferency to good or evil. 321

FINIS.