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

for ignorance and imperfection doth not adhere to his intellectuals, as we acknowledge doth to ours, and that by Original sin. But it must be confessed he betrayeth much of Original sin, even while he writeth against it, and his Arguments (as I may so say) materialiter prove it, while formaliter ⟨image 4⟩against it. His greatest honour is, that a Papist hath written against him.¹ One might doubt, whether really or by collusion, it is done so slightly, and calculated wholly according to the Popish Meridian; and yet in some respects it is his great disparagement, that one of Babylon should appear at least in some measure for an ancient Truth, while at the same time one pretending to be of Zion should oppose it. But enough of this troublesome matter.

for ignorance and imperfection doth not adhere to his intellectuals, as we acknowledge doth to ours, and that by Original sinne. But it must be confessed he betrayeth much of Original sinne, even while he writeth against it, and his Arguments (as I may so say) materialiter prove it, while formaliter ⟨image 4⟩against it. His greatest honour is, that a Papist hath written against him.¹ One might doubt, whether really or by collusion, it is done so slightly, and calculated wholly according to the Popish Meridian; and yet in some respects it is his great disparagement, that one of Babylon should appear at least in some measure for an ancient Truth, while at the same time one pretending to be of Sion should oppose it. But enough of this troublesom matter.

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I now come to acquaint the Reader with the Method I propound in this Book, which is first to handle the An sit of Original Sin; Secondly, The Quid sit; which done, I proceed to the two-fold Subject of it, mentioned by the Learned; The Subject of Inhesion; And herein, I show particularly and largely, how every power of the Soul is infected by this Leprosy; which accomplished, I pass to the Subject of Predication, showing, That it is in every one naturally born of a woman, That omnis homo, and totus homo is thus corrupted; and then close with the consideration of the Properties and Effects of it. All which I have endeavoured to manage practically, as well as doctrinally, knowing the great and excellent improvement in a spiritual way, that may be made of this truth, as I experimentally found by the attestation of godly hearers in the preaching thereof; and I doubt not but if the Ministers of Christ did more largely insist on this Point, they would find very good success thereby, for the through Humiliation of their people, the information about Regeneration,