A Christian instruction, containing the law and the Gospel Also a summary of the…A Christian instruction, conteyning the law and the Gospell Also a summarie of the…

How that by reason of that concupiscence we are justly worthy of death and damnation, even from our mothers womb.

Hovv that by reason of that concupiscence vvee are iustly vvorthy of death and damnation, euen from our mothers vvombe.

T. What sin is that then in little children, that doth so displease God, that it doth not make them only subject to bodily death, but also to eternal death, and maketh them the children of ⟨p. 522⟩wrath and of the curse, even before they have the use of reason: to know & discern either good or evil.

T. WHat sinne is that then in little children, that doth so displease God, that it doth not make thē only subiect to bodily death, but also to eternall death, and maketh them the children of ⟨p. 522⟩wrath and of the curse, euen before they haue the vse of reason: to know & discerne either good or euill.

D. It is that natural corruption whereof David speaketh, saying:¹ I was conceived in sin, & my mother did bear me in sin: now if we would have the meaning of the words of David expressed according to the signification that they have in the Hebrew, we must then say: And my mother hath warmed me in sin, or with sin, whereby he giveth to understand that he hath been begotten, conceived, and nourished, in his mothers womb, with the sin, even as if he & sin were brothers, twins, begotten, conceived & nourished together in the womb of one very mother: it is then easy to understand how natural sin is now to man, being in this corrupted nature, whereunto he is fallen by mean of his transgression: for that which David speaketh of himself, doth appertain to the whole race of man. Wherefore that conception whereof he speaketh in this passage, is common to us all. Then even so as a little Serpent doth offend us, not only as soon as he is brought or hatched,