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

In the mean time, Let us consider what a late Writer (Doctor Jer. Taylor of Repent. Chap. 6.) who useth to sharpen his weapons at the Philistines forges, the Papists, and commonly the worst of them, as also the Socinians, with whom we reckon Grotius, from these (I say) he delivereth his poisonous assertions:

In the mean time, Let us consider what a late Writer (Doctor Jer. Taylor of Repent. Chap. 6.) who useth to sharpen his weapons at the Philistims forges, the Papists, and commonly the worst of them, as also the Socinians, with whom we reckon Grotius, from these (I say) he delivereth his poisonous assertions:

First, It is pretended, That the Scripture maketh this their own fault, and not Adam's because vers. 12. it is said, All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. But

This is very feeble and weak, for it is willingly acknowledged, that the increase of actual wickedness was the immediate and proxime cause of this general judgement, had not their iniquities in that age risen higher, and cried louder for vengeance then ordinarily sin did, we may conceive God would not have proceeded to such an unheard of, and extraordinary judgement: Therefore vers. 5. it is said, God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth; The Hebrew word comprehends both the greatness in quantity, it was exceedingly multiplied as also in quality; They were enormous sins, all this the Text is clear for, but this is not all; The Text goeth higher, to aggravate these impieties from the fountain, which is a corrupt nature, even as David, Psal. 51. doth heighten his actual wickedness from the sinful nature he was born in; Therefore both actual sins, as the fruit and original sin as the root, is here made the cause of that universal judgement.