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

But because this matter is under Debate and Question, let us further enquire into it, examining, Whether the wisest Heathens had any knowledge of this natural pollution the Word doth so fully inform us in? And

BUt because this matter is under Debate and Question, let us further enquire into it, examining, Whether the wisest Heathens had any knowledge of this natural pollution the Word doth so fully inform us in? And

First, As for that original sin called originans, viz. Adam's actual transgression made ours by Gods will and appointment, through imputation, that is, wholly known by revelation, so that no Heathens by the highest improvement and cultivage of nature could ever discern such things. That God made Adam righteous, giving him a command of trial in obedience, or disobedience, whereof all his posterity should be involved, this they had not the least him of, and the reason is, Because the truth of such things lieth not in nature, neither have second causes the least demonstration of this, but it is wholly discovered as a matter of fact by the Scripture; So that we Christians ought the more to bless God for the sight of his Word, seeing thereby a very Idiot amongst us may know more, then the wisest Aristotle or Plato amongst the Heathens.

First, As for that original sinne called originans, viz. Adam's actual transgression made ours by Gods will and appointment, through imputation, that is, wholly known by revelation, so that no Heathens by the highest improvement and cultivage of nature could ever discern such things. That God made Adam righteous, giving him a command of tryal in obedience, or disobedience, whereof all his posterity should be involved, this they had not the least him of, and the reason is, Because the truth of such things lieth not in nature, neither have second causes the least demonstration of this, but it is wholly discovered as a matter of fact by the Scripture; So that we Christians ought the more to bless God for the sight of his Word, seeing thereby a very Ideot amongst us may know more, then the wisest Aristotle or Plato amongst the Heathens.