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

The sum whereof is, That though we are to conceive of the soul, as pure, while coming from God, yet considering it in termino, as the part of man who descended from Adam, so it is polluted, not by any physical cause for that sin cannot have, but a moral one, which is the first transgression of Adam; for although that hath had no being these thousand years, yet it is not requisite that a moral cause should exist to produce its effect. Because then the soul in the same instance it is created, it is also united, as a form to the compositum, which is man, Therefore it is deprived of its primitive purity, not by any positive efficiency, but merely negatively, God denying his image to it, because the soul is part of a man, it is corrupted; therefore if the soul were only an assistant form not inwardly compounding man, it would not receive pollution by generation. Hence

The summe whereof is, That though we are to conceive of the soul, as pure, while coming from God, yet considering it in termino, as the part of man who descended from Adam, so it is polluted, not by any physical cause for that sinne cannot have, but a moral one, which is the first trangression of Adam; for although that hath had no being these thousand yeares, yet it is not requisite that a moral cause should exist to produce its effect. Because then the soul in the same instance it is created, it is also united, as a forme to the compositum, which is man, Therefore it is deprived of its primitive purity, not by any positive efficiency, but meerly negatively, God denying his image to it, because the soul is part of a man, it is corrupted; therefore if the soul were only an assistant form not inwardly compounding man, it would not receive pollution by generation. Hence

The second Proposition is, That the children even of holy and sanctified persons, who have their original sin in the guilt of it quite taken away, and in the filth and power of it much subdued, yet they beget children in original sin, and such children are by nature the children of wrath as well as of the most profligate and wicked men. It is usual with Papists and Lutherans to charge upon the Calvinists, that they deny original sin in part (at least) because they affirm, That the children of believers are holy; but herein they do either ignorantly or maliciously calumniate, for they say no more then what the Apostle speaketh in that famous place,