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

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, Heb. 7. 27. Heb. 9. 28. The true meaning whereof we shall give anon, But with Christians we need not long to insist upon the proof of this, That Christ was without all sin, either original or actual, typified therein by the High Priest in the Law, who had this written upon him, Holiness to the Lord, and therefore he is not only holy [Greek or Hebrew], but also [Greek or Hebrew], He that sanctifieth and maketh us holy by his blood; And therefore the Apostle demonstrateth his preheminency above all the Priests of the Law, That they were to offer for their own sins as well as for the sins of the people, but so it was not with him, if he had had sin in him, he could not have been our Saviour, but he would have needed a Saviour himself; yea Dan. 9. 24. he is called Sanctum sanctorum, the Holy of holies, or most holy: And to this truth the Scripture speaketh clearly, not only when it saith, That be knew no sin, and that no guile was found in his mouth, which happily might be thought to be limited only to actual sin, (but also as to the original and radical evil of mans nature,) that though he be a man of like nature with us, yet sin is still exempted, Rom. 8. 3. He sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, not in the likeness of the flesh, for he had our true flesh upon him, but in the likeness of sinful flesh, he had not the sin of our nature, though he had the nature it self: As the brazen Serpent was like a Serpent, but it had not the poison and venom of a Serpent;

That Christ onely is born holy, and that all the rest of mankind is polluted with sinne. It is a saying, Exceptio format regulam, if then Christ be exempted, so that it is his peculiar priviledge, 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 sinne: 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 necessarly be sinne. The Socinians they affirm, That Christ had a holy of sinne, but then by sinne they mean onely infirmities and weaknesses, not that which is truly so, for this alledging,