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

The Apostle having thus informed about Titus his duty, he proceedeth to some Doctrinal Instruction about those erroneous opinions, instancing in one, which was greatly controverted in the Infancy of the Church, and that is about the choice of meats and abstinence from them. To obviate any corrupt Doctrine herein, he layeth down this weighty Proposition, To the pure all things are pure, that is, to such who are sanctified by the Christian saith, and are rightly instructed in Christian liberty, all things (viz.) of this kind (not adultery, fornication, or such sins) are pure to them, they may lawfully use them: Every creature as the Apostle elsewhere, being sanctified by the Word of God and prayer. This Truth he amplifieth by the contrary Proposition, To the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, this is more then if he had said, All things are unclean, for that might have been limited, as in the former to things of this kind, but saying, that nothing is pure to them, is signified hereby, that all is pitch (as it were) that the, touch; That like a Leper, even good things do not purify them, but they defile them: And then you have the cause and fountain of this, Even their mind and conscience is defiled; No wonder the streams are polluted, when the fountains are: By mind, is meant the speculative part of our understanding, by conscience, the practical part; and therefore having spoken of the pollution of the former, we now proceed to the later.

The Apostle having thus informed about Titus his duty, he proceedeth to some Doctrinal Instruction about those erroneous opinions, instancing in one, which was greatly controverted in the Infancy of the Church, and that is about the choice of meats and abstinence from them. To obviate any corrupt Doctrine herein, he layeth down this weighty Proposition, To the pure all things are pure, that is, to such who are sanctified by the Christan saith, and are righly instructed in Christian liberty, all things (viz.) of this kind (not adultery, fornication, or such sinnes) are pure to them, they may lawfully use them: Every creature as the Apostle elswhere, being sanctified by the Word of God and prayer. This Truth he amplifieth by the contrary Proposition, To the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, this is more then if he had said, All things are unclean, for that might have been limited, as in the former to things of this kind, but saying, that nothing is pure to them, is signified hereby, that all is pitch (as it were) that the, touch; That like a Leper, even good things do not purifie them, but they defile them: And then you have the cause and fountain of this, Even their mind and conscience is defiled; No wonder the streams are polluted, when the fountains are: By mind, is meant the speculative part of our understanding, by conscience, the practical part; and therefore having spoken of the pollution of the former, we now proceed to the later.