CHAPTER XIII.
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 inflection 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."—Article IX.
§ 1. "The poison of the myrrh of death which Adam ate brought death to all his descendants to all generations." From the service in the Gezza appointed for the holy Nativity.
§ 2. "My enemy daily casts me into unprofitable lusts because he perceives that my mind is inclined to evil, and daily he wars against me by exciting my spirit within me, and by causing my eyes to look upon iniquity. Look Thou, therefore, upon me, O Lord, tainted as I am with every kind of wickedness through the instigation of the Wicked one, who in his malice has made me a derision. O eternal Lord, exert that power which formed me from the dust to repel the Rebel who has taken me captive, and have mercy upon me." Prayer appointed in the Khudhra for the third Sunday of the summer season.
§ 3. "In mercy, O Lord, set up Thy peace within my soul, that it may quench the fiery arrows of lust within me, wherewith mine enemy assaults me continually. … Set it up in my
