IX. _Of Original or Birth-sin_.

Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the

Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the

Nature of every man, that naturally is ingendered of the offspring

of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness,

and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh

lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every

person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and

damnation. And this infection of nature doth remain, yea in

them that are regenerated; whereby the lust of the flesh, called

in the Greek, _phronema sarkos_, which some do expound the wisdom,

some sensuality, some the affection, some the desire, of the

flesh, is not subject to the Law of God. And although there is

no condemnation for them that believe and are baptized, yet the

Apostle doth confess, that concupiscence and lust hath of itself

the nature of sin.

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