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

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.

We have brought in several Arguments to prove original sin to be a sin properly and truly so, and this was the rather to be done, because of some Papists, but especially Socinians and Arminians, with the Pelagians of old, denying it to be so. But from Scripture it is clear, that it is as true a sin, as actual, and therefore that division of sin into original and actual, is of an univocal genus into its species, both the members of that division partaking in a proper manner of the nature of sin. It being therefore the foundation of this point, and all our fabric, which in times shall be raised, being bottomed of this, we shall ex abundanti, offer two or three Arguments more, to prove that it is a sin, not in a large, or a metonymical lense, but rigidly and properly: And the first in order is,