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

For the Psalm it self, that is Supplicatory, wherein David wrestleth in agonies with God, for to obtain mercy, using several Arguments; One from the Mercy, yea the multitude of mercy, that is in God: Another is, from the confession and deep sense of sin in his soul, he acknowledgeth it, and it is always before him, he never puts it out of his memory: Whither soever he goeth, and whatsoever he is doing, still his sins are (as it were) so many Devils appearing in horrid shapes before his eyes.

For the Psalm it self, that is Supplicatory, wherein David wrestleth in agonies with God, for to obtain mercy, using several Arguments; One from the Mercy, yea the multitude of mercy, that is in God: Another is, from the confession and deep sense of sinne in his soul, he acknowledgeth it, and it is alwayes before him, he never puts it out of his memory: Whither soever he goeth, and whatsoever he is doing, still his sinnes are (as it were) so many Devils appearing in horrid shapes before his eyes.

A third Argument is in the Text, from the aggravation of those actual sins he committed; They were not sins to be considered merely in themselves, but from the cause and root whence they sprang, even the defiled and corrupt nature that was in him, it being not so much those actual, though so horrid sins that made him so guilty, as that they did flow from such a defiled fountain within ⟨p. 61⟩him: Thus he aggravateth those actual sins from the root and cause within him; For although he was regenerated, and so delivered from the dominion of original corruption, yet it was with him, as with Paul, The Law of sin did still war within him against what was good, sin dwelt in him still, and was apt upon all occasions, like a Delilah, to betray him into the hand of the Philistines, into the power of some soul transgressions. It is true, some have thought, that David speaks this to extenuate and lessen his sin; as if his meaning had been, Lord, it's true, I have committed these foul sins in thy sight, but they are the more venial and pardonable, because my nature is corrupt: It is no wonder, that being not an Angel, or a man in integrity, as Adam, or confirmed in grace, as the glorified Saints in Heaven, but the son of corrupted Adam, that I have thus tumbled into the mire; And it cannot be denied, but that this truth of our original corruption may be pleaded, both for aggravation to punish, and also for pity to spare: Hence