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

Secondly, This also implieth, That we should be loathsome and abominable in our own eyes; that when we are grown up, and shall be truly informed upon what terms we come into the world, we should be as so many spiritual monsters in our own eyes. Job, you see here, though so godly a man, and who had such a glorious character given him by God himself, yet because of this doth loath himself. The ulcers and sores upon his body, for which he sate abhorring of himself upon the dung-hill, seem not more to affect him then this spiritual vileness and loathsomeness that is upon him. It's observed, That though Herod and others have kept a ⟨p. 53⟩festival Commemoration of their birth-day, yet we never read that ever any godly man did so, (though Calvin saith, it's mos vetustus, and so not vituperabilis, because of the good use may be made of it) in the Scripture. Indeed the day of their death hath been celebrated and called their birth-day, because then, and never till then did they begin indeed to live; And if Solomon, merely because of the miseries and vexations that do accompany this humane life, Eccles. 4. 2. praised the dead above the living, and he that never had been, that was not born, better than both: How much rather will this bold true, if we consider, how man is born in a sinful estate, and cannot but sin all the day long? Certainly, we may say, it had been far better thou hadst never been born, if not new born, if not delivered from this native filthiness, as if thou must have a being, better have been any brutish creature than a man, better be a Toad, a Tiger, a Serpent, than a man, if not washed by the blood of Christ from this uncleanness; For although we have cause to bless God that he made us men, rather than brute beasts, in respect of natural considerations, yet in a theological sense, because they are not subject to hell and damnation, as man is, therefore their estate is not so miserable. For

Secondly, This also implieth, That we should be loathsom and abominable in our own eyes; that when we are grown up, and shall be truly informed upon what terms we come into the world, we should be as so many spiritual monsters in our own eyes. Job, you see here, though so godly a man, and who had such a glorious character given him by God himself, yet because of this doth loath himself. The ulcers and sores upon his body, for which he sate abhorring of himself upon the dung-hill, seem not more to affect him then this spiritual vileness and loathsomness that is upon him. It's observed, That though Herod and others have kept a