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

IN which words are considerable, the Subject, and the Predicate, with the Manner of its attribution.

The Subject is [We] that is, we all, as in the beginning of this verse: For seeing the Jews were Abraham's children, in which they so much boasted, and therefore are called Jews by nature, Gal. 2. 15. and the natural branches, Rom. 11. 21. They might easily think, others indeed were by nature sinful, yet for themselves, they would think that glorious descent they had from Abraham might be a privilege to them, but here it is true, though Jews by nature, yet sinners by nature, as the Gentiles were.

The Subject is [We] that is, we all, as in the beginning of this verse: For seeing the Jews were Abraham's children, in which they so much boasted, and therefore are called Jews by nature, Gal. 2. 15. and the natural branches, Rom. 11. 21. They might easily think, others indeed were by nature sinfull, yet for themselves, they would think that glorious discent they had from Abraham might be a priviledge to them, but here it is true, though Jews by nature, yet sinners by nature, as the Gentiles were.

2. There is the Predicate, Children of wrath, [Greek or Hebrew], which is an Hebraism, and signifieth one wholly exposed to wrath, as if wrath were the mother, and ⟨p. 3⟩gave them their whole being. Thus the children of Belial, and the sons of death are often in Scripture. By wrath is meant Gods wrath; Now because Gods wrath is just, and doth always presuppose sin; Hence is inevitably deducted, That we are also by Nature full of sin: So that though wrath be immediately the misery here spoken of, yet sin is supposed as the necessary antecedent.