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…And although parents be never so eminent in holiness, yet their children are full of sinne, and so obnoxious unto the wrath of God; and the reason is, because they are fathers to their children, not as godly, but as men, and original sinne is the consequent of mans nature, whereas the parents grace is a personal excellency, and so cannot be transmitted: Even as learned parents do not conveigh learning to their children, but they are born in ignorance as well as others; Those known similies of Augustine are full to this purpose, A Jew that was circumcised, be begat children not circumcised, but uncircumcised and the…
Anthony Burgess — A Treatise of Original Sin, A TREATISE OF Original Sinne. PART. III. — SECT. II., p. 394
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