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

Fourthly, That eternal damnation belongeth to the sin we are born in, appeareth by those remedies of grace, and Ordinances of salvation which were appointed by God both in the Old and New Testament, for the taking away of this natural guilt. Circumcision in the Old Testament did declare, that by nature the heart was uncircumcised and that every one was destitute of any inherent righteousness; hence circumcision is called, The seal of the righteousness, which is by faith, Rom. 4. 11. To this Baptism doth answer in the New Testament, the external never whereof with the formal Rite of Administration doth abundantly convince us of our spiritual uncleanness, as also the need we have of the blood of Christ, and also of his Spirit for our cleansing.

Fourthly, That eternal damnation belongeth to the sinne we are born in, appeareth by those remedies of grace, and Ordinances of salvation which were appointed by God both in the Old and New Testament, for the taking away of this natural guilt. Circumcision in the Old Testament did declare, that by nature the heart was uncircumcised and that every one was destitute of any inherent righteousnesse; hence circumcision is called, The seal of the righteousnesse, which is by faith, Rom. 4. 11. To this Baptism doth answer in the New Testament, the external never whereof with the formal Rite of Administration doth abundantly convince us of our spiritual uncleanness, as also the need we have of the bloud of Christ, and also of his Spirit for our cleansing.

Now because the known Adversary to this truth, affirmly, That he knoweth ⟨p. 535⟩of no Church that in her Rituals doth confess and bewail original sin: As also that we might see the Judgement of our first Reformers in England about Baptism, as relating to original sin; It is good to observe, what is set down in the Public Administration of Baptism, as by the Common-Prayer-Book was formerly to be used; there the Minister useth this Introductory, Forasmuch as all men be conceived and born in sin; adding from hence, That none can enter into the kingdom of Heaven, unless he be born again. It is the sin he is born in (not pure Naturals, as the Doctor saith) that inferreth a necessity of regeneration.