A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

maketh original sin to be nothing but impotentia naturam cohibendi, that we cannot stop nature in the impetuous motions thereof to sin, no more than we can the violent torrents and streams of water in excessive floods. In these two things then lieth the whole venom and poison of this natural filthiness, we are without all good, and under the dominion of all evil, and this is to speak all the misery that possibly a man can be capable of.

maketh original sinne to be nothing but impotentia naturam cohibendi, that we cannot stop nature in the impetuous motions thereof to sinne, no more than we can the violent torrents and streams of water in excessive floods. In these two things then lieth the whole venom and poison of this natural filthiness, we are without all good, and under the dominion of all evil, and this is to speak all the misery that possibly a man can be capable of.

In the last part we add in the description a two-fold effect of this natural defilement, which although they are to be treated of in a more large manner, with all the particular effects of this sin, or some of them at least, yet in the general something is to be said, that we may affect our souls with them. And

In the last part we adde in the description a two-fold effect of this natural defilement, which although they are to be treated of in a more large manner, with all the particular effects of this sinne, or some of them at least, yet in the general something is to be said, that we may affect our souls with them. And

First, Hereby we are made obnoxious to the curse and wrath of God: Even before any actual sin is ever committed, for this Infants dying immediately upon their birth, may justly be damned to all eternity; This is that which carnal reason strometh at; This is that which the nature of man will hardly yield to; Therefore the position of many have been, That there is nothing damnable in Infants; And although some would not admit them into the Kingdom of Heaven, yet freed them from the place of the damned, but we must submit our humane reason, and our humane affections to the Scripture, if so be that Gods word saith, We are by nature children of wrath; If Jesus Christ be a Saviour to Infants as well as to men; if he came to redeem them as well as actual sinners, then of themselves their condition was damnable, for Christ came to seek that which was lost, and the whole need not the Physician, but the sick: Oh then let us all humble our selves under this sentence of condemnation passed upon us. God might say of every Infant, In the day thou art born, thou shalt be damned, and it is the mere gracious favour of God, that deferreth the execution of this sentence, for till a man be in