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

LUKE 1. 35. Therefore also that holy thing, which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God.

LUKE 1. 35. Therefore also that holy thing, which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Sonne of God.

WE have at large (though not according to the desert thereof) described and amplified the subject of original sin, wherein it is seated. By which it appeareth, that man all over is become corrupted, both the totus homo, and the totum hominus, the whole man, and the whole of man. The next thing to be considered is the omnis homo, or the Subject of predication, as Divines call it; The former being called the Subject of Inhesion.

WE have at large (though not according to the desert thereof) described and amplified the subject of original sinne, wherein it is seated. By which it appeareth, that man all over is become corrupted, both the totus homo, and the totum hominus, the whole man, and the whole of man. The next thing to be considered is the omnis homo, or the Subject of predication, as Divines call it; The former being called the Subject of Inhesion.

Our work then is to show, That Christ only excepted, every one of mankind is involved in this common sin and misery, there is none that can plead any exemption from it; For seeing it is made the peculiar privilege of Christ to be so born, because conceived after a miraculous manner, it therefore necessarily followeth, that all others are comprehended under this guilt; Though you may see some men from the youth up, less vicious then others, more ingenuous and civil then others, yet even these are by nature all over sinful; so that there is no such thing as a natural probity and goodness, of which the Socinians dispute, as in time is to be showed; That it is the prerogative of Christ only to be freed not only from all actual sin, but also original and birth-sin is evident by this Text, which containeth an answer of the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, who with some trouble and amazement had questioned, how she should conceive a Son, who knew not a man? The Angels answer consisteth in the information of the manner, how it shall be, and the consequent issue, and event thereof; The Manner is expressed in the efficient cause, and his efficacy. The Efficient cause is said to be the holy Ghost, and the power of the Highest. A person not the virtue only of God, as the Socinians blaspheme, as appeareth n that we are baptized into the name of the holy Ghost, who is reckoned one