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

But first,¹ Seeing David intends to abhor himself before God, there is no sense to go from the plain words, otherwise we might turn all the Scripture into tropes and figures, and so make no certainty at all; And as for those two places, they confirm this Text, for how come men to be transgressors from the womb, to act wickedness so early, to sin as soon as ever they are able to act any thing? Doth not all this demonstrate they were born in sin?

But first,¹ Seeing David intends to abhorre himself before God, there is no sense to go from the plain words, otherwise we might turn all the Scripture into tropes and figures, and so make no certainty at all; And as for those two places, they confirm this Text, for how come men to be transgressors from the womb, to act wickedness so early, to sinne as soon as ever they are able to act any thing? Doth not all this demonstrate they were born in sinne?

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Besides, those places are not parallel, for they speak of the facts of men after they come out of the womb, and in such particulars an Hyperbole may sometimes be admitted; but this relateth to David while in the womb, and not to his own action, but that wherein he was passive.

Lastly, Another Socinian saith, It is to be understood of actual sins, and not original, because it is in the Plural number, whereas original sin is but one.

Lastly, Another Socinian saith, It is to be understood of actual sinnes, and not original, because it is in the Plural number, whereas original sinne is but one.