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

Thus you have the Text vindicated, only one thing more is to be observed, the expression used by the Angel, [Greek or Hebrew], Which shall be born of thee, doth fully demonstrate, That Christ had a body framed by the holy Ghost of the substance of the Virgin Mary, that he had not a fantastical body, neither did he bring a body from Heaven, and so pass through the Virgin Mary, as some of old and late have dreamed; Therefore Marcion who denied the true body of Christ, and thereby also his Conception and Nativity, did wholly evade this Chapter of Luke, and would not receive it as Canonical, being called by Tertullian, Mus ponticus, because of his corroding and gnawing out of ⟨p. 390⟩Scripture, as he pleased, when he saw any place make against him. The words thus explained, Observe

Thus you have the Text vindicated, only one thing more is to be observed, the expression used by the Angel, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Which shall be born of thee, doth fully demonstrate, That Christ had a body framed by the holy Ghost of the substance of the Virgin Mary, that he had not a phantastical body, neither did he bring a body from Heaven, and so passe through the Virgin Mary, as some of old and late have dreamed; Therefore Marcion who denied the true body of Christ, and thereby also his Conception and Nativity, did wholly evade this Chapter of Luke, and would not receive it as Canonical, being called by Tertullian, Mus ponticus, because of his corroding and gnawing out of ⟨p. 390⟩Scripture, as he pleased, when he saw any place make against him. The words thus explained, Observe

That Christ only is born holy, and that all the rest of mankind is polluted with sin. It is a saying, Exceptio format regulam, if then Christ be exempted, so that it is his peculiar privilege, then certainly all the rest are included: As there are some, who make all men pure by nature; So some have blasphemously vented, That Christ had original sin: Yea a Remonstrant writeth, That the humane nature of Christ had that fight and conflict in it which is between the reason and the appetite, which we say must necessarily be sin. The Socinians they affirm, That Christ had a holy of sin, but then by sin they mean only infirmities and weaknesses, not that which is truly so, for this alleging,