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

The third Proposition is, That if any Infants should be converted even in the womb, yet we may truly say of them, that they are by nature polluted with sin, and deserve the wrath of God, for what they have by mere grace, doth not take away, but suppose they have sin by nature: There are two instances in Scripture of Infants, that might be thought to be freed from original sin; The first is of Jeremiah cap 1. 5. where the Lord saith to Jeremiah, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before then camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a Prophet to the Nations. But

The third Proposition is, That if any Infants should be converted even in the womb, yet we may truely say of them, that they are by nature polluted with sinne, and deserve the wrath of God, for what they have by meer grace, doth not take away, but suppose they have sinne by nature: There are two instances in Scripture of Infants, that might be thought to be freed from original sinne; The first is of Jeremiah cap 1. 5. where the Lord saith to Jeremiah, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before then camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a Prophet to the Nations. But

First, Every one may easily see this is nothing to the Prophets conception or birth in sin, for what is said here in the Text, is attributed to Jeremiah before any of these; so that all that could be proved from hence would be, that Jeremiah had no original sin, either before he was conceived or born, and who saith a man hath original inherent sin before he hath a being? But

First, Every one may easily see this is nothing to the Prophets conception or birth in sinne, for what is said here in the Text, is attributed to Jeremiah before any of these; so that all that could be prooved from hence would be, that Jeremiah had no original sinne, either before he was conceived or born, and who saith a man hath original inherent sinne before he hath a being? But