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

PSAL. 51. 5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

PSAL. 51. 5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sinne did my mother conceive me.

The sad occasion of this Psalm is plainly set forth in the Inscription, David a godly man, after Gods own heart, a Prophet, a King, who had been exercised under several afflictions, yet when arrived to peace, plenty and ease, falls into those foul sins of Adultery and Murder, which later was contrived with much deliberation, subtlety and bloodiness; Yet after some security in this sin, being admonished and awakened by Nathan, he repents and bitterly bewaileth these transgressions. So that in this Psalm is described a form for every Prodigal, repenting, and coming home to his Father; That David was only in a Lethargy, or Apoplexy, not quite dead, that the seed of grace, was not wholly extinct in him, is sufficiently proved against the Arminians by the Orthodox, though they deride, saying, The Calvinists Elect persons; The Albae Gallinae filii, They may do any thing, commit any sin, and nothing will hurt them; But this is to mock and scorn at that special Covenant of Grace in Christ, made to those who are given to him by the Father; and indeed such present meltings and remorse of soul, upon Nathan's admonition, without any rage, malice, or fury at the Prophet, who rebuked him, intimate, That the seed of grace was not quite overcome within him.

THe sad occasion of this Psalm is plainly set forth in the Inscription, David a godly man, after Gods own heart, a Prophet, a King, who had been exercised under several afflictions, yet when arrived to peace, plenty and ease, fals into those foul sinnes of Adultery and Murder, which later was contrived with much deliberation, subtilty and bloodiness; Yet after some security in this sinne, being admonished and awakened by Nathan, he repents and bitterly bewaileth these transgressions. So that in this Psalm is described a form for every Prodigal, repenting, and coming home to his Father; That David was only in a Lethargy, or Apoplexy, not quite dead, that the seed of grace, was not wholly extinct in him, is sufficiently proved against the Arminians by the Orthodox, though they deride, saying, The Calvinists Elect persons; The Albae Gallinae filii, They may do any thing, commit any sinne, and nothing will hurt them; But this is to mock and scorn at that special Covenant of Grace in Christ, made to those who are given to him by the Father; and indeed such present meltings and remorse of soul, upon Nathan's admonition, without any rage, malice, or fury at the Prophet, who rebuked him, intimate, That the seed of grace was not quite overcome within him.