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

Thirdly, There are those who make such an humiliation and debasement, as David here professeth altogether needless and superfluous, but they go upon different grounds: For,

THirdly, There are those who make such an humiliation and debasement, as David here professeth altogether needless and superfluous, but they go upon different grounds: For,

First, All such who do absolutely deny any such thing, they must needs acknowledge all such confessions to be lies and falsehoods, that it is but taking of Gods name in vain, when we confess such a thing by our selves, if it be not indeed in us: For if Adam should have said, Behold, God created me in iniquity, and formed me in sin, would not this have been horrible lying to God, and blaspheming of his Name? No less is it; If their Position be true, That we are born in the same condition and estate that Adam was created in, derogatory to God, and a bold presumptuous lie, for men in their prayers to acknowledge such a sin dwelling in them, when indeed it doth not; So then, if this be true, That we are not born in original sin, then David doth in this penitential Psalm, fearfully abuse the Name of God, speaking that which is a lie, and a most abominable untruth; But whose fore-head is so hardened, as to affirm this? Yet all such who deny there is any birth-sin, they must also say, there is no confession to be made of it, neither are we to humble our selves because of it.

First, All such who do absolutely deny any such thing, they must needs acknowledge all such confessions to be lies and falshoods, that it is but taking of Gods name in vain, when we confess such a thing by our selves, if it be not indeed in us: For if Adam should have said, Behold, God created me in iniquity, and formed me in sinne, would not this have been horrible lying to God, and blaspheming of his Name? No less is it; If their Position be true, That we are born in the same condition and estate that Adam was created in, derogatory to God, and a bold presumptuous lie, for men in their prayers to acknowledge such a sinne dwelling in them, when indeed it doth not; So then, if this be true, That we are not born in original sinne, then David doth in this penitential Psalm, fearfully abuse the Name of God, speaking that which is a lie, and a most abominable untruth; But whose fore-head is so hardned, as to affirm this? Yet all such who deny there is any birth-sinne, they must also say, there is no confession to be made of it, neither are we to humble our selves because of it.