The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.

§. 9.

Verilie, (saith Esdras) there is no man a∣mong them that be borne, but hee hath doone wickedly: nor any among the faith∣full, which hath not done amisse.

For, there is no man that sinneth not.

But as in euery Pomegranate, there is some graine rotten: so is there no man, but hath some euill condition.

Yea; vvhat soule so-euer is borne in the flesh, it is vndoubtedly defiled, with the filth of wickednesse and sinne.

And, mans hart also, is so sette vpon euil, euen from his child-hoode, that the nature of man, is not one day from his birth, free without sinne.

Notes

• 2, Esdr. 8, 35.
• 2, Chr. 6. 36.
• Plato.
• Origen.
• Ierome.