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

Besides the word [Greek or Hebrew] being used about twelve times in the New Testament, doth always signify that which is nature, or according to natural inclination, or what we have by natural birth; For nature, so 1 Cor. 11. 14. Doth not nature teach you? And Jam. 3. 7. Rom. 1. 26. For natural principles and inclinations, so the Gentiles, Rom. 2. 14. are said [Greek or Hebrew], To do the things of the Law, or by natural descent, Rom. 2. 27. Uncircumcision is said to be [Greek or Hebrew], so Rom. 11 21, 24. The natural branches are called the Jews descending of Abraham, and thereby enjoying Church-privileges, and Gal. 2. 15. Jews by Nature; Insomuch that it is a manifest falsehood to say, the word never signifieth that which we have by birth. And indeed, as is well observed by Zanchy, The phrase, Children by Nature must necessarily imply by descent, as the son of a man supposeth descent from him: Adam was a man, but not the son of a man, he had it not originally from another, whereas we are by nature children of wrath, and so have it from our parents. Hence it is [Greek or Hebrew], not [Greek or Hebrew], which doth relate to our nativity, and in the original it is more emphatical than in our Translations, for there it is, not by nature children of wrath, but [Greek or Hebrew], Children by nature of wrath; So that children by nature is opposite to children by Custom, Imitation, Adoption, or any other way. Thus the first exception is removed.

Besides the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 being used about twelve times in the New Testament, doth alwayes signifie that which is nature, or according to natural inclination, or what we have by natural birth; For nature, so 1 Cor. 11. 14. Doth not nature teach you? And