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

SECT. I.

The Privative Part of Original Corruption, as it is the loss of Gods Image hath been treated of, both in the general and the particulars. Now that still we may the more throughly possess our souls with this unspeakable loss, it is necessary to say something of Gods Image, which man at first was created in: For although I said, that I would not enter into a large Tractate of it, yet something must be necessarily spoken to it; for if there be no such thing as original righteousness, then there is no such thing as original sin; if there be no such thing as light, there cannot be any such thing as darkness. The Privation doth necessarily suppose an habit; Hence the Socinians, as they wholly deny this original sin we are treating of, so do they also reject this original righteousness; calling it (as was said) Faetida fabula, an old stinking Fable, an Idea feigned in mens brains, of which there is [Greek or Hebrew], not the least Title in the Scripture (Vide Pertium Harmon.) It behoveth us therefore the more diligently to search into this truth; For if Adam never had such glory and holiness put upon him, then we his posterity could not lose it.

THe Privative Part of Original Corruption, as it is the loss of Gods Image hath been treated of, both in the general and the particulars. Now that still we may the more throughly possess our souls with this unspeakable loss, it is necessary to say something of Gods Image, which man at first was created in: For although I said, that I would not enter into a large Tractate of it, yet something must be necessarily spoken to it; for if there be no such thing as original righteousnesse, then there is no such thing as original sinne; if there be no such thing as light, there cannot be any such thing as darkness. The Privation doth necessarily suppose an habit; Hence the Socinians, as they wholly deny this original sin we are treating of, so do they also reject this original righteousness; calling it (as was said) Faetida fabula, an old stinking Fable, an Idea feigned in mens brains, of which there is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, not the least Title in the Scripture (Vide Pertium Harmon.) It behoveth us therefore the more diligently to search into this truth; For if Adam never had such glory and holiness put upon him, then we his posterity could not lose it.