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

It is answered, The though original corruption was in all mankind, as soon as ever the Image of God was lost, and therefore Seth is said to beget his son after his own likeness sinful and mortal, yet because it did not break out into those violent torrents of iniquity before, as it did at this time; Hence it was that God did more severely take notice of it, as putting it self forth in such bitter effects.

It is answered, The though original corruption was in all mankind, as soon as ever the Image of God was lost, and therefore Seth is said to beget his sonne after his own likeness sinfull and mortal, yet because it did not break out into those violent torrents of iniquity before, as it did at this time; Hence it was that God did more severely take notice of it, as putting it self forth in such bitter effects.

Fourthly, It is objected, That Noah the Preacher of righteousness was sent to draw the world off from that which was likely to destroy it, but no man can think, he would dehort them from being guilty of original sin.

Fourthly, It is objected, That Noah the Preacher of righteousnesse was sent to draw the world off from that which was likely to destroy it, but no man can think, he would dehort them from being guilty of original sinne.

To this we also answer, That as for being guilty of original sin in our birth, and how that can be our sin, then, when we were not capable of a precept, I have at large treated of it, and so shall not actum ager•• as also how far original sin is to be repented of; Only to the present Objection we say, That though the Ministry be not to hinder us from being born in sin, yet it is to be instrumental in working our Regeneration (which great gift of God those that deny original sin must also necessarily deny) which is a subduing and mortifying of original sin in some degree, and is a renovation of all those parts which original sin had corrupted; For Regeneration (