SECT. II.
[ 1] ANd first, It may well be called Natural, because it doth infect the whole Na∣ture of Mankind. It's a defilement that followeth our specifical, not indi∣vidual being: Even as we call death natural, because it followeth all mankind; Rich men die, and poor men die; learned men die, and foolish; None are ex∣empted from it: Thus also it is with this sinne, All that are born in a natural way of mankind have this contagion. The sonnes of Noblemen and Princes, though they glory in their blood and their descent, yet they are as full of sin, and the children of wrath, as well as the children of the basest; so that though in civil respects they boast of their birth, and are above others, yet in a theologi∣cal and divine respect, all are alike; yea the children of godly parents, though they have a promise to their seed, and in that respect their children are said to be holy, 1 Cor. 7. yet they come into the world with inherent corruption in them; They do not generate their children, as godly men, but corrupt men, as Austin of old ex∣pressed it, A circumcised man begat a child uncircumcised, and the Husbandman, though he soweth his seed out of the chaff and husk, yet that brings up others with chaff and husk upon it. Well therefore may we call it a natural sinne, be∣cause it doth extend to the whole humane Nature, as it is in every one that parta∣keth of it in a natural way. So that as Divines do distinguish of infirmities and evils; There are some that are specifical, which follow the Species, as death; and some are accidental, which follow the individual nature: Thus there are some sinnes, which follow the particular nature of a man, and these are actual sinnes. Every man is not a drunkard, an adulterer, but some are defiled one way, some another; but then there is a sinne, which followeth the whole and universal na∣ture of man, and this is original sinne, though every man be not guilty of such or such a particular sinne, yet all are, of original sinne; And therefore the School∣men say, Actual sinne doth corrumpere personam, but original Naturam, actual sins corrupt the person, original the nature.