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

Argum. 6. It is a true and proper sin, Because by this our persons are made unclean, so that naturally we cannot please God; We are corrupt fountains, we are bad trees, and all this before we commit any actual sin.

Argum. 6. It is a true and proper sinne, Because by this our persons are made unclean, so that naturally we cannot please God; We are corrupt fountains, we are bad trees, and all this before we commit any actual sin.

Argum. 7. If Adam had stood, that which would have been communicated to his posterity, would have been truly and properly holiness. An Infant new born would have been called righteous in a proper sense; Therefore are we now born sinful in a true and proper respect.

Argum. 7. If Adam had stood, that which would have been communicated to his posterity, would have been truly and properly holiness. An Infant new born would have been called righteous in a proper sense; Therefore are we now born sinfull in a true and proper respect.

Argum. 8. This is a sin properly, Because it is against the Law of God. We want that perfection which we ought to have; we are bound not only to actual obedience, but to do this from an holy and unspotted principle within: Therefore it is truly said, Original sin is in some sense forbidden in every Commandment, and original Righteousness is commanded in all, but because this is so much vexed by Objections, we are to speak more to it in answer to them.

Argum. 8. This is a sinne properly, Because it is against the Law of God. We want that perfection which we ought to have; we are bound not only to actual obedience, but to do this from an holy and unspotted principle within: Therefore it is truly said, Original sinne is in some sense forbidden in every Commandment, and original Righteousness is commanded in all, but because this is so much vexed by Objections, we are to speak more to it in answer to them.