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

Secondly, The Scripture speaketh of mans condition since Adam's fall, as a state of privation not negation; When David confessed he was born in sin, Credo (saith learned Davenant on Col. cap. 2. 2.) hac verba non ferent commentum Jesuiticum, in purr is naturalibus conceptus sum, &c. for the Word of God describeth us as blinded in our mind, that we are dead in sin, that we have a stony heart: all which argue that we have only impure naturals.

Secondly, The Scripture speaketh of mans condition since Adam's fall, as a state of privation not negation; When David confessed he was born in sinne, Credo (saith learned Davenant on Col. cap. 2. 2.) hac verba non ferent commentum Jesuiticum, in pur is naturalibus conceptus sum, &c. for the Word of God describeth us as blinded in our mind, that we are dead in sinne, that we have a stony heart: all which argue that we have only impure naturals.

Thirdly, To hold death, diseases, and soul miseries, such as grief, ignorance, difficulty to do good, &c. consequential of nature is to attribute cruelty and injustice ⟨p. 525⟩to God. This Austin of old urged the Pelagians with, How can an Infant new born be exposed to such miseries, if there be no sin deserving of it? What God may do to an innocent creature, how far he may afflict him per modum simplicis cruciatus, though not poenae, by his sovereign dominion, is not here to be disputed? It is certain all these miseries of mankind are by the Scripture attributed to sin; and shall we have such hard thoughts of God, that the world shall be full of miseries before sin?

Thirdly, To hold death, diseases, and soul miseries, such as grief, ignorance, difficulty to do good, &c. consequentiall of nature is to attribute cruelty and injustice ⟨p. 525⟩