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

Are we all guilty of sin as soon as we are born? This should teach us Humiliation and Patience under the death or miseries of our Infants; we are ready to say, Why are such poor Innocents exposed to such calamities? The knowledge of original sin will stop thy mouth herein. When Titus the Emperor was dying, who for his good and sweet Government was called Deliciae generis humani, he quarrelled with the gods, because he thought they did eripere vitam immerenti, he deserved not to die, he thought death was a wrong to him; but had he understood original sin, he would have seen his desert of it, though he had never committed any actual impiety. Pliny likewise if he had known this, would not have uttered that foolish complaint, That homo was animal infaeliciter natum, which did cum suppliciis vitam auspicari, unam tantum ob culpam, quia natum est, that did begin his life with miseries, and punish us for this fault only because he was born; No, The Scripture would have informed him, it was, because he was born in sin. This is the rise and spring of all mans calamity.

ARe we all guilty of sinne as soon as we are born? This should teach us Humiliation and Patience under the death or miseries of our Infants; we are ready to say, Why are such poor Innocents exposed to such calamities? The knowledge of original sinne will stop thy mouth herein. When Titus the Emperour was dying, who for his good and sweet Government was called Deliciae generis humani, he quarrelled with the gods, because he thought they did eripere vitam immerenti, he deserved not to die, he thought death was a wrong to him; but had he understood original sinne, he would have seen his desert of it, though he had never committed any actual impiety. Pliny likewise if he had known this, would not have uttered that foolish complaint, That homo was animal infaeliciter natum, which did cum suppliciis vitam auspicari, unam tantum ob culpam, quia natum est, that did begin his life with miseries, and punish us for this fault only because he was born; No, The Scripture would have informed him, it was, because he was born in sinne. This is the rise and spring of all mans calamity.