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

In the third place, In that men is born unclean, thereby is proclaimed, That he cometh into the world upon far more dangerous and wretched terms, than other creatures do. The brute creatures they are not unclean; God doth not loath and abhor their young ones; They are not by nature the objects of his wrath, neither are they exposed to eternal torments, but thus is the sinful off-spring of all mankind; Thou canst not see a worm crawling on the ground, thou canst not hear a snake hissing in the hedge, but thou mayest think these are not as bad as I am, these have no sin in their natures, God is not angry with these, as he is with mankind: For though History report of a devout man, who seeing a Toad fell a weeping, because of the goodness of God, who had made him a man, and not that Toad, yet upon the consideration of original sin, he might as deeply have mourned, because he was worse, than that Toad. Thou canst not see the fatted beasts driven to the slaughter, but thou mayest say, They are happier than I am, for they are killed, and there is an end of them, but I am a miserable and wretched man, born in sin, and if not cleansed from it, must necessarily perish to all eternity. Luther, while in the deeps, troubles and sorrows of heart, because of his sin, had this passage, Oh quoties optavi me uunquam fuisse hominem! He went from place to place, his heart aching and throbbing, crying out, Oh that I had never been a man! So that by sin a man is not only made like the beast that perisheth, but worse, for the beast perisheth totally, but so shall not he.

In the third place, In that men is born unclean, thereby is proclaimed, That he cometh into the world upon farre more dangerous and wretched terms, than other creatures do. The bruit creatures they are not unclean; God doth not loath and abhorre their young ones; They are not by nature the objects of his wrath, neither are they exposed to eternal torments, but thus is the sinfull off-spring of all mankind; Thou canst not see a worm crawling on the ground, thou canst not hear a snake hissing in the hedge, but thou mayest think these are not as bad as I am, these have no sinne in their natures, God is not angry with these, as he is with mankind: For though History report of a devout man, who seeing a Toad fell a weeping, because of the goodness of God, who had made him a man, and not that Toad, yet upon the consideration of original sinne, he might as deeply have mourned, because he was worse, than that Toad. Thou canst not see the fatted beasts driven to the slaughter, but thou mayest say, They are happier than I am, for they are killed, and there is an end of them, but I am a miserable and wretched man, born in sinne, and if not cleansed from it, must necessarily perish to all eternity. Luther, while in the deeps, troubles and sorrows of heart, because of his sinne, had this passage, Oh quoties optavi me uunquam fuisse hominem! He went from place to place, his heart aking and throbbing, crying out, Oh that I had never been a man! So that by sinne a man is not onely made like the beast that perisheth, but worse, for the beast perisheth totally, but so shall not he.