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

expressly saith, Judgement came by one to condemnation; and Rom. 3. That the whole world is guilty before God.

expresly saith, Judgement came by one to condemnation; and Rom. 3. That the whole world is guilty before God.

Secondly, The Scripture doth not only speak of this birth-pollution as a sin, but as an heinous sin in its effects, whereby it doth admit of many terrible aggravations, (as you have heard.) It is the Law in our members, it's the flesh, tho body of sin, the sin that doth so easily beset us, the sin that warreth against the mind and the Spirit of God, that captivateth even a godly man in some measure, which maketh Paul groan under it, and cry out of his miserable condition thereby; so that it is not merely a sin, but a sin to be aggravated in many respects, and therefore necessarily causing damnation, unless God in his mercy prevent. Let Bellarmine and others extenuate it, making it less then the least sin, that is (of which more afterwards) let them talk of venial sins, that do not in their own nature deserve hell; yet because all sin is a transgression of Gods Law, the curse of God belongeth thereunto, therefore it hath an infinite guilt in respect of the Majesty of God, against whom it is committed; and they who judge sin little, must also judge the Majesty of God to be little also. What shall one respect of involuntariness, which is in original sin, make it less then others, when […] so many other respects (some whereof do more immediately relate to the nature of sin, then voluntariness can do) far exceed other sins?

Secondly, The Scripture doth not only speak of this birth-pollution as a sinne, but as an hainous sinne in its effects, whereby it doth admis of many terrible aggravations, (as you have heard.) It is the Law in our members, it's the flesh, tho body of sin, the sin that doth so easily beset us, the sin that warreth against the mind and the Spirit of God, that captivateth even a godly man in some measure, which maketh Paul groan under it, and cry out of his miserable condition thereby; so that it is not meerly a sinne, but a sinne to be aggravated in many respects, and therefore necessarily causing damnation, unlesse God in his mercy prevent. Let Bellarmine and others extenuate it, making it lesse then the least sinne, that is (of which more afterwards) let them talk of venial sinnes, that do not in their own nature deserve hell; yet because all sinne is a transgression of Gods Law, the curse of God belongeth thereunto, therefore it hath an infinite guilt in respect of the Majesty of God, against whom it is committed; and they who judge sinne little, must also judge the Majesty of God to be little also. What shall one respect of involuntariness, which is in original sinne, make it lesse then others, when so many other respects (some whereof do more immediately relate to the nature of sinne, then voluntariness can do) farre exceed other sinnes?