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SECT. 6. The Virgine Mary borne in originall sinne.

Obj. YOu will surely confesse that the Virgine Mary was borne without originall sinne, it being for the honour of Christ?

Ans. The Apostle acquainteth us, that whatsoever the Law saith, it saith to them that are under the Law, that every mouth may to stopped, and all the World be culpable before God; but the Virgine Mary was under the Law, and blameable as others were, and therefore guilty of originall sinne. She was also made righteous by faith, for she called Christ her Saviour, in her

Song, Luk. 1. 47. the Apostle also saith, that we were all the chil∣dren of wrath, and if all, then the Virgine Mary, and so borne in originall sinne; the Scriptures also discovereth divers infirmities* 1.1 in the Virigine Mary, as Luk. 2. 48. in finding fault with Christ, whom she had formerly acknowledged to be her Saviour. 2. Her interrupting of Christ in his Sermon, Mat. 12. 46. 3. In her pre∣scribing a time for Christ to shew a Miracle, for which she pro∣cured a rebuke from him, Joh. 2. 2. upon which reasons and testimonies of Scriptures, describing her infirmities, we inferre; that the Virgine Mary was conceived, and borne in originall* 1.2 sinne, as others are, and Christ only is exempted, of whom only the Apostle saith, He was in all things in like sort tempted, and yet without sinne, Heb. 4. 15.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Divers infir∣mities in the Virgine Mary.
• * 1.2

  Christ only exempted from originall sin.