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

and if so, it's also plain by Scripture, That Baptism in the nature of it, signifieth Remission of sins and Regeneration, which privileges, if Infants want, they must necessarily have that which is truly and properly a sin.

and if so, it's also plain by Scripture, That Baptism in the nature of it, signifieth Remission of sinnes and Regeneration, which priviledges, if Infants want, they must necessarily have that which is truly and properly a sin.

Argum. 11. Lastly, Every Infant new born comes into the world with that, which is truly and formally a sin, Because the Scripture makes it the peculiar Character and property of Christ, that he was wholly without sin. Therefore the Angel in his discourse to Mary calls him the [Greek or Hebrew], that holy thing which shall be born of thee, Luke 1. 35. And the Apostle telleth us, It behoved us to have such an High priest, who was tempted like us in all things, sin only excepted, ⟨p. 37⟩Heb. 4. 15. These places do clear, that Christ only was born without sin, and all others are polluted with it: And the reason why Christ is exempted, is, because he was not of Adam, Quoad seminalem rationem, but corpulatam substantiam, as the Schoolmen say, He was not the son of Adam by natural generation, but by a miraculous conception. It is true, The Evangelist Luke reckoning up Christs Genealogy, ascends up to Adam, as if he were the son of Adam, but that is because he was the supposed son of Joseph his father, he was accounted his legal father, though he was not his natural.

Argum. 11. Lastly, Every Infant new born comes into the world with that, which is truly and formally a sinne, Because the Scripture makes it the peculiar Character and property of Christ, that he was wholly without sinne. Therefore the Angel in his discourse to Mary cals him the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that holy thing which shall be born of thee,