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

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.

I shall not range into all the controversal 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 sanctifie, 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.

But yet in the second place, It's good to have a more thorough discussion of these words, though not so amply, as polemical Divines have enlarged it; and the rather, because the Lutheran Divines do boldly and peremptorily charge it upon the Calvinists, as if they denied original sin in all the children of believers; And although they cannot be ignorant in what sense the Calvinists do explain this holiness of believers children, yet they constantly calumniate in this point, as if something would stick upon them howsoever.