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

If therefore original sin be a sin, and will damn us without Christs blood, and Gods gracious pardon thereby, then we pray for the pardon of […] in the Lords Prayer, and we are all our life long, because of the relics of it in us, to humble ourselves, because of it; And although because Wallaeus, an eminent Divine spake of, Reliquiae peccats originalis. The Remonstrants call it an absurd phrase; For what is meant (say they) by these relics of original sin, either actual sins or original? If original, why then are they called the relics of it? Yet we may say, The phrase is very proper, for it supposeth original sin not to be wholly extinct, but busy and acting, even in the godly, and therefore we may truly say, Paul, Rom. 7. complained of the relics of it.

If therefore original sinne be a sinne, and will damn us without Christs bloud, and Gods gracious pardon thereby, then we pray for the pardon of 〈…〉 in the Lords Prayer, and we are all our life long, because of the reliques of it in us, to humble ourselves, because of it; And although because Wallaeus, an eminent Divine spake of, Reliquiae peccats originalis. The Remonstrants call it an absurd phrase; For what is meant (say they) by these reliques of original sinne, either actual sinnes or original? If original, why then are they called the reliques of it? Yet we may say, The phrase is very proper, for it supposeth original sinne not to be wholly extinct, but busie and acting, even in the godly, and therefore we may truly say, Paul, Rom. 7. complained of the reliques of it.

It is our duty (we heard) from this example of David, to humble our selves for the original sin that is in us, as long as we live. Hence whatsoever Austin said at other times, yet in one place he spake most truly in this point, Propter vitium quantum libet praeferimus, esse nobis necessarium dicere dimitte nobis debita nostra, cum jam omnia in Baptismo dicta facta, cogitate dimissa sint. (Epist. 29) Because of original sin, although we have never so much profited, yet we are to pray, that God would forgive us our sins.