2. When the nature is corrupted by the inherency of Original Sin. That there is such a thing as the sin of nature is evident from the word of God; it is called Concupiscence or Lust, Jam. 1. 14. Indwelling Sin; Rom. 7. 17. Sin that is always present. Verse 21. The Flesh, Joh. 3. 6. The body of sin. Rom. 6. 6. Of Death, 7. 24. The Law in the members, v. 23. The body of the Sins of the flesh, Col 2. 11. The Old man, Eph. 4. 23. Now all these point to the root or fountain from which actual Sin proceeds, and therefore must intend something divers from it; hence we read of Lust Conceived, and Sin the issue of it, Jam. 1. 15. Now this Sin is in all Adams Posterity, born after the ordinary course of nature; even Infants, and Naturals too: it is therefore usually called Our Birth Sin, and Our Conception Sin, ⟨p. 87⟩according to, Psal. 51. 5. And it derives from the corrupt fountain from whence we all proceed. Adam defiled himself, lost the Image of God, contracted the Image of Sin, and then he Propagated it, Gen. 5. 2. And how should it be otherwise? for Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Job 14. 4. And though this be in one sense a punishment fallen upon us for the first Transgression, yet in it self it is really Sin; it is a Sinful state that we are in by it; the Definition of sin belongs to it, it is Anomy, 1 Joh. 3. 4. Mans nature by it doth not answer the Law of Creation. And that it is imputed is evident, because it is an Image for which God despiseth man, Psal. 73. 20. It is that which they Die for, Rom. 5. 14. Psal. 137. ult. It is certainly in them, and therefore may be charged on them, and the Righteousness of their being found Guilty by reason of it, will one day he made good by him who is Judge of all: mean while the foundation of the equity of it is laid in that which follows: Hence,
2. When the nature is corrupted by the inherency of Original Sin. That there is such a thing as the sin of nature is evident from the word of God; it is called Concupiscence or Lust, Jam. 1. 14. Indwelling Sin; Rom. 7. 17. Sin that is alwayes present. Verse 21. The Flesh, Joh. 3. 6. The body of sin. Rom. 6. 6. Of Death, 7. 24. The Law in the members, v. 23. The body of the Sins of the flesh, Col 2. 11. The Old man, Eph. 4. 23. Now all these point to the root or fountain from which actual Sin proceeds, and therefore must intend something divers from it; hence we read of Lust Conceived, and Sin the issue of it, Jam. 1. 15. Now this Sin is in all Adams Posterity, born after the ordinary course of nature; even Infants, and Naturals too: it is therefore usually called Our Birth Sin, and Our Conception Sin, ⟨p. 87⟩according to, Psal. 51. 5. And it derives from the corrupt fountain from whence we all proceed. Adam defiled himself, lost the Image of God, contracted the Image of Sin, and then he Propagated it, Gen. 5. 2. And how should it be otherwise? for Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Job 14. 4. And though this be in one sence a punishment fallen upon us for the first Transgression, yet in it self it is really Sin; it is a Sinful state that we are in by it; the Definition of sin belongs to it, it is Anomy, 1 Joh. 3. 4. Mans nature by it doth not answer the Law of Creation. And that it is imputed is evident, because it is an Image for which God despiseth man, Psal. 73. 20. It is that which they Dy for, Rom. 5. 14. Psal. 137. ult. It is certainly in them, and therefore may be charged on them, and the Righteousness of their being found Guilty by reason of it, will one day he made good by him who is Judge of all: mean while the foundation of the equity of it is laid in that which follows: Hence,
