In the next place we are to consider the words absolutely, and they are very emphatical, the Heart, the Imagination, and is evil. In the former place, Chap. 6. 5. there is a greater aggravation, Every Imagination, and only evil, and all the day long; but one supposeth the other; here in this Text, in stead of continually, or every day, as in the Original, we have From the youth, and therefore doth more palpably demonstrate the original filth or all men by nature; Neither can the Adversaries to this Doctrine of original sin put in the exception ⟨p. 404⟩to this place, as they did to the former, for there they would evade, by saying, it was spoken of those evil and wicked men, who had in a more notorious manner corrupted all their doings; But how can they open their mouth against this place, for God speaketh this as true at that present of all mankind by nature, when yet the great profane ones were destroyed, and Noah with his family was preserved? So that this is a perpetual and inseparable qualification from the nature of man, more than actual death; For Enoch and Elijah did not actually die, yet they were born with original sin: As for some Expositors who would limit to the time of youth, when a man is past his Infantia and Pueritia, his infancy and childhood, arrived at his Adolescentia, his youth, that is not to be admitted, for the word is to be applied to his whole time since he was born; The word Nagnar doth signify one cast or shut out, and properly belongeth to a new born Infant, and so doth signify the tender Infancy of a child, although we grant that it is sometimes extended to the youth, as Genes. 37. Joseph is called Nagnar a youth, when he was seventeen years old feeding the flock. So 1 Kings 3. sometimes it's applied to a Disciple or Servant, because they were ordinarily young, 2 King. 9. Isa. 37. which the Septuagint render [Greek or Hebrew], and it is applied to Christ; and therefore whereas Acts 4. 27. it is rendered Thy holy child Jesus; Some think it better according to the use of the word, by the Septuagint, Thy holy servant, for so Christ is sometimes in respect of his Mediatory Office, called the servant of God. But it is plain, that children are capable of sin before their youth, and therefore we are not to limit it, but to expound if of their very first being in original sin, which doth vent it self actually in after years.
In the next place we are to consider the words absolutely, and they are very emphatical, the Heart, the Imagination, and is evil. In the former place, Chap. 6. 5. there is a greater aggravation, Every Imagination, and only evil, and all the day long; but one supposeth the other; here in this Text, in stead of continually, or every day, as in the Original, we have From the youth, and therefore doth more palpably demonstrate the original filth or all men by nature; Neither can the Adversaries to this Doctrine of original sinne put in the exception ⟨p. 404⟩to this place, as they did to the former, for there they would evade, by saying, it was spoken of those evil and wicked men, who had in a more notorious manner corrupted all their doings; But how can they open their mouth against this place, for God speaketh this as true at that present of all mankind by nature, when yet the great prophane ones were destroyed, and Noah with his family was preserved? So that this is a perpetual and inseparable qualification from the nature of man, more than actual death; For Enoch and Elijah did not actually die, yet they were born with original sinne: As for some Expositors who would limit to the time of youth, when a man is past his Infantia and Pueritia, his infancy and childhood, arrived at his Adolescentia, his youth, that is not to be admitted, for the word is to be applied to his whole time since he was born; The word Nagnar doth signifie one cast or shut out, and properly belongeth to a new born Infant, and so doth signifie the tender Infancy of a child, although we grant that it is sometimes extended to the youth, as Genes. 37. Joseph is called Nagnar a youth, when he was seventeen years old feeding the flock. So 1 Kings 3. sometimes it's applied to a Disciple or Servant, because they were ordinarily young, 2 King. 9. Isa. 37. which the Septuagint render 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and it is applied to Christ; and therefore whereas Acts 4. 27. it is rendred Thy holy child Jesus; Some think it better according to the use of the word, by the Septuagint, Thy holy servant, for so Christ is sometimes in respect of his Mediatory Office, called the servant of God. But it is plain, that children are capable of sinne before their youth, and therefore we are not to limit it, but to expound if of their very first being in original sinne, which doth vent it self actually in after years.
