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

4. (They say) These are the words of Eliphaz, one of Jobs friends, and they did not always speak right. It is true, they did not always rightly apply the Doctrine they spake, they mistook about Job, but the Doctrine it self in the general was true, and therefore we see that quoted in the new Testament, as the word of God which Eliphaz spake, as that passage, 1 Cor. 3. 13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, is Eliphaz his speech, Job. 5. 13. but for this particular truth; you have heard Job also as well as Eliphaz confirming of it, Job. 14. 3. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one; Which is not to be understood of bodily filthiness, as the Pelagians of old, but spiritual uncleanness, as appeareth by the opposite to it in other places, which is unrighteousness, for it is worth our observing that this natural pollution and sinfulness of man is mentioned four times in this Book of Job, with the aggravation of it.

4. (They say) These are the words of Eliphaz, one of Jobs friends, and they did not alwayes speak right. It is true, they did not alwayes rightly apply the Doctrine they spake, they mistook about Job, but the Doctrine it self in the general was true, and therefore we see that quoted in the new Testament, as the word of God which Eliphaz spake, as that passage, 1 Cor. 3. 13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, is Eliphaz his speech, Job. 5. 13. but for this particular truth; you have heard Job also as well as Eliphaz confirming of it, Job. 14. 3. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one; Which is not to be understood of bodily filthiness, as the Pelagians of old, but spiritual uncleanness, as appeareth by the opposite to it in other places, which is unrighteousness, for it is worth our observing that this natural pollution and sinfulness of man is mentioned four times in this Book of Job, with the aggravation of it.