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

And because in Theological Debates two Questions are necessary, The An sit, and the Quid sit, Whether there be such a thing, and, What it is; and in both these the truth of God meeteth with many adversaries.

ANd because in Theological Debates two Questions are necessary, The An sit, and the Quid sit, Whether there be such a thing, and, What it is; and in both these the truth of God meeteth with many adversaries.

I shall first insist on the Quod sit, That there is such a natural and cursed pollution upon every one that is born in an ordinary way. The first Text I shall fasten this Truth upon, is this I have mentioned, which deservedly, both by Ancient and Modern Writers is thought to have a pregnant and evident demonstration, That there is such a natural contagion upon all.

To understand this the better, take notice of the Coherence briefly. The Apostles scope is, to incite the Ephesians to Thankfulness, by the consideration of that great love and infinite mercy vouchsafed to them by God; and because the Sun is most welcome out of a dark gloomy cloud, one contrary doth more illustrate another. He compareth their present state of Grace, with their pristine condition of misery and wretchedness, which is summarily expressed, That they were dead in sins and trespasses, a far more dreadful estate, than if they had been dead and rotting in their graves. This internal corruption is amplified from a twofold external cause,

To understand this the better, take notice of the Coherence briefly. The Apostles scope is, to incite the Ephesians to Thankfulness, by the consideration of that great love and infinit mercy vouchsafed to them by God; and because the Sunne is most welcome out of a dark gloomy cloud, one contrary doth more illustrate another. He compareth their present state of Grace, with their pristine condition of misery and wretchedness, which is summarily expressed, That they were dead in sinnes and trespasses, a farre more dreadfull estate, than if they had been dead and rotting in their graves. This internal corruption is amplified from a twofold external cause,