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…

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, ⟨p. 523⟩but being in his egg, or in the belly of his dame: even so do we in deed displease God from our very mothers womb. And what is the cause that this little serpent doth so much offend us? by means of the venomous nature that is in him. For all be it that he have not yet showed it, yet notwithstanding it is still abiding in him, and doth not let to show it, but only because it wanteth the mean: but it shall be sufficiently showed in his time.

D. It is that naturall corruptiō whereof Dauid speaketh, saying:¹ I was conceyued in sinne, & my mother did beare me in sinne: nowe if wée would haue the meaning of the words of Dauid expressed according to the signification that they haue in the Hebrew, we must thē say: And my mother hath warmed me in sinne, or with sinne, whereby he giueth to vnderstād that he hath bene begotten, conceiued, and nourished, in his mothers wombe, with the sinne, euen as if he & sinne were brothers, twinnes, begotten, conceyued & nourished togither in the wombe of one very mother: it is then easie to vnderstand how natural sinne is now to man, being in this corrupted nature, wherevnto he is fallen by meane of his transgression: for that whiche Dauid speaketh of himselfe, doth appertaine to the whole race of man. Wherefore that conception whereof he speaketh in this passage, is common to vs all. Then euen so as a litle Serpent doth offend vs, not only as sone as he is brought or hatched,