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

This is a miserable shift;¹ for, First, David was not begotten in adultery, neither were his parents unlawfully joined together, therefore in begetting of him, they did not sin; for Marriage is honourable, if the bed be not defiled with adultery or fornication: Therefore if Adam had stood in the state of integrity, there would have been procreation of children; so that his parents did no more sin in this, than in eating and drinking, or any other lawful act God hath appointed, either for the propagating of the species, or conservation of the individuums.

This is a miserable shift;¹ for, First, David was not begotten in adultery, neither were his parents unlawfully joyned together, therefore in begetting of him, they did not sinne; for Marriage is honourable, if the bed be not defiled with adultery or fornication: Therefore if Adam had stood in the state of integrity, there would have been procreation of children; so that his parents did no more sinne in this, than in eating and drinking, or any other lawfull act God hath appointed, either for the propagating of the species, or conservation of the individuums.

1. 1Answ.

Secondly, This Interpretation is against the scope of David in this Psalm, which is to debase himself, to humble himself from what is in him, not what is in others, I will acknowledge my sin, and my iniquity is always before me, and so proceedeth to bewail this original, or birth-sin.

Secondly, This Interpretation is against the scope of David in this Psalm, which is to debase himself, to humble himself from what is in him, not what is in others, I will acknowledge my sinne, and my iniquity is alwayes before me, and so proceedeth to bewail this original, or birth-sinne.