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

And that upon a two-fold account, both because of the actual impieties all do commit, as also because of that original filthiness and pollution we are born in.

Now it is my purpose to treat of Gods righteous dispensation towards mankind in this particular only, because some do rise up with great zeal, for the righteousness, honour and glory of God in this point, as if the Doctrine delivered by the Orthodox herein, were altogether injurious and derogatory to him: Hence the late known Adversary to this fundamental Truth about original sin, delivers himself thus (Answer to a Letter, pag. 23, 24) To say that for Adam's sin it is just in God to condemn Infants to the eternal flames of hell; and to say, that concupiscence or natural inclinations, before they pass unto act could bring eternal condemnation, &c. are two such horrid propositions, that if any Church in the world would expressly affirm them, I for my part should think it unlawful to communicate with her in the defence, or profession of either, and think it would be the greatest temptation in the world to make men not to love God, of whom they speak such horrid things. Thus he most horribly. Now although these two Propositions are set down by him odiously and captiously, not fully expressing the Doctrine of ⟨p. 423⟩the Reformed Churches, yet it is plain, that he striketh at those Positions, which are for the substance of them maintained by all Protestant Churches, and doth thereby publicly profess his separation from, and non-communion with all Protestant Churches, and particularly with the Church of England, in that 9th Article, which he doth so cruelly tear and mangle, that it may not appear to be what indeed it is.

Now it is my purpose to treat of Gods righteous dispensation towards mankind in this particular only, because some do rise up with great zeal, for the righteousness, honour and glory of God in this point, as if the Doctrine delivered by the Orthodox herein, were altogether injurious and derogatory to him: Hence the late known Adversary to this fundamental Truth about original sinne, delivers himself thus (Answer to a Letter, pag. 23, 24) To say that for Adam's sinne it is just in God to condemn Infants to the eternal flames of hell; and to say, that concupiscence or natural inclinations, before they passe unto act could bring eternal condemnation, &c. are two such horrid propositions, that if any Church in the world would expresly affirme them, I for my part should think it unlawfull to communicate with her in the defence, or profession of either, and think it would be the greatest temptation in the world to make men not to love God, of whom they speak such horrid things. Thus he most horribly. Now although these two Propositions are set down by him odiously and captiously, not fully expressing the Doctrine of