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

Thus you see in the mouth of three witnesses we have this Doctrine assured to us, that man of himself is very abominable and filthy: we might think such clear Texts might for ever convince men, that they should not speak of such a thing, as natural is quaedem sanctitas, and probitas, a natural kind of holiness and probity, no though it were among deaf men, the matter is so abominable, ⟨p. 441⟩and grossly repugnant to Scripture-light.

Thus you see in the mouth of three witnesses we have this Doctrine assured to us, that man of himself is very abominable and filthy: we might think such clear Texts might for ever convince men, that they should not speak of such a thing, as natural is quaedem sanctitas, and probitas, a natural kind of holiness and probity, no though it were among deaf men, the matter is so abominable, ⟨p. 441⟩and grossely repugnant to Scripture-light.

The last exception put in against this place by the pure Naturalists is, That this Text speaketh of actual sin, and therefore it maketh nothing for original To drink down iniquity like water, is (say they) nothing but the […] exercising of impiety. But this is readily granted, for we bring this Text to declare the immediate issue of original sin, because man is thus abominable by nature, therefore he drinketh down iniquity like water; he doth not speak here of men, who by custom have habituated themselves in an evil way, which is become like a second nature to them, but of man originally and nakedly in himself, till the grace of God make a change upon him; So that as to drink, though an action, doth denote thirst, a natural appetite within; Thus the acting of iniquity with delight and content, doth necessarily suppose a corrupted and perverted principle within, from whence all actual evil doth flow.

The last exception put in against this place by the pure Naturalists is, That this Text speaketh of actual sinne, and therefore it maketh nothing for original To drink down iniquity like water, is (say they) nothing but the exercising of impiety. But this is readily granted, for we bring this Text to declare the immediate issue of original sinne, because man is thus abominable by nature, therefore he drinketh down iniquity like water; he doth not speak here of men, who by custom have habituated themselves in an evil way, which is become like a second nature to them, but of man originally and nakedly in himself, till the grace of God make a change upon him; So that as to drink, though an action, doth denote thirst, a natural appetite within; Thus the acting of iniquity with delight and content, doth necessarily suppose a corrupted and perverted principle within, from whence all actual evil doth flow.