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

The first Objection, which I shall bring, seemeth in express terms to deny any such uncleanness, at least to Infants of believers: So that it should seem, Because ⟨p. 56⟩believers are clean; Therefore their children are brought clean out of them. The place that gives fuel to this Argument is known, being much vexed and discussed in these days, especially in the controversy about Paedobaptism, it is 1 Cor. 7. 14. Else were your children unclean, but now are they holy; where it is positively said, That the children, though but of one believing Parent, are not unclean, [Greek or Hebrew], that answereth the Hebrew word in the Text; yea the contrary to this is affirmed, That they are holy.

The first Objection, which I shall bring, seemeth in express terms to deny any such uncleanness, at least to Infants of bellevers: So that it should seem, Because ⟨p. 56⟩believers are clean; Therefore their children are brought clean out of them. The place that gives fuel to this Argument is known, being much vexed and discussed in these dayes, especially in the controversie about Poedobaptism, it is 1 Cor. 7. 14. Else were your children unclean, but now are they holy; where it is positively said, That the children, though but of one believing Parent, are not unclean, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that answereth the Hebrew word in the Text; yea the contrary to this is affirmed, That they are holy.

I shall not range into all the controversial Disputes about this point, only in the general we may say, That this place doth not at all contradict my Text, for Job saith, That by nature none can bring a clean thing out of an unclean, but if God by grace doth it, that doth not oppose Job; yea, we told you, some render the later clause interrogatively; Art not thou he alone, viz. that can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Certainly, though no humane or Angelical power can thus sanctify, yet God can; For, what do all those glorified Saints in Heaven made perfectly holy, but proclaim this, for they were once unclean, and impure, but now God hath made them fully clean without the least spot or blemish? Thus there is no contrariety between these two Texts, for one speaketh of what we are in a natural way, the other, what some are by a gracious and supernatural way.