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

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.

Thirdly, If his intent were to confess his parents sins, why doth he instance in his mother only, In sin did my mother conceive me? he saith, Why did he not rather bewail the sin of his father, who begat him, who would have been a greater sinner, than his mother in that matter, if it had been a sin at all?

Thirdly, If his intent were to confess his parents sins, why doth he instance in his mother only, In sinne did my mother conceive me? he saith, Why did he not rather bewail the sinne of his father, who begat him, who would have been a greater sinner, than his mother in that matter, if it had been a sinne at all?

Lastly, It's good to take notice of what Bellarmine, in the Exposition of this place, though a Papist saith, It may be to prevent such calumnies, that future Heretics would raise, the holy Ghost in this Text would use no word, that did properly and directly relate, either to the fathers begetting, or the mothers immediately conceiving thereupon, for this might seem to attribute sin to that, which yet is of Gods appointment, and if true, would necessarily condemn marriage, as unlawful; So that as he observeth, The words do properly relate to the child afterwards in the womb, when formed and nourished there.