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

For though the sin against the holy Ghost be in this respect more terrible than original sin, because God will never pardon that, whereas original sin is pardoned to all believers, and as Antiquity hath thought, even to Adam himself; yet in other respects, original sin is in a more extense and universal manner cursed than that: Do not then go to extenuate this sin, to say, It was but the eating of some for bidden fruit; or original sin, it hath none of my will, I cannot help it (for we join original, imputed, and inherent at this time together, because of their inseparable connection;) but rather consider the great anger of God that is gone out against all mankind, because of it, and then thou wilt look on it with the same abhorring eye that God himself doth.

For though the sinne against the holy Ghost be in this respect more terrible than original sinne, because God will never pardon that, whereas original sinne is pardoned to all believers, and as Antiquity hath thought, even to Adam himself; yet in other respects, original sinne is in a more extense and universal manner cursed than that: Do not then go to extenuate this sinne, to say, It was but the eating of some for bidden fruit; or original sinne, it hath none of my will, I cannot help it (for we joyn original, imputed, and inherent at this time together, because of their inseparable connexion;) but rather consider the great anger of God that is gone out against all mankind, because of it, and then thou wilt look on it with the same abborring eye that God himself doth.

Fifthly, We are greatly to bewail this original defilement, Because it makes us wholly incurable, it depriveth us of all spiritual ability and power to recover our selves; We are thus shapen in iniquity, and so must live and die, and go to hell in it, if Gods grace doth not interpose: Doth not Job, Chap. 14. 4. make it impossible for any man, to bring a clean thing out of an unclean? So that all mankind is born in an absolute impotency to help it self, if we would give thousands of worlds to come out of this lost estate, we could not help ourselves: Hence it is that the Scripture attributeth all the good we have to the alone free grace of God.