A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

ROM. 7. 7. For I had not known lust, except the Law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

WE are discovering the Nature of original sin in the Positive part of it; For although Corvinus the Remonstrant cavilleth at the Division of original sin into two parts, therein gratifying the Papists (as it were, yet we see the Scripture speaking of it fully, as having these two parts; And whereas he saith, The Positive inclination to evil, must be the effect of the privation of original righteousness, and so not a part of original, because an effect cannot be a part of its cause.

WE are discovering the Nature of original sinne in the Positive part of it; For although Corvinus the Remonstrant cavilleth at the Division of original sinne into two parts, therein gratifying the Papists (as it were, yet we see the Scripture speaking of it fully, as having these two parts; And whereas he saith, The Positive inclination to evil, must be the effect of the privation of original righteousnesse, and so not a part of original, because an effect cannot be a part of its cause.

It's answered first, That sometimes there is a division of a common thing, as into two parts, when yet one is the effect of the other; as when malum is divided into malum culpae, and malum poena, the evil of punishment is necessarily the effect of the evil of sin. But

It's answered first, That sometimes there is a division of a common thing, as into two parts, when yet one is the effect of the other; as when malum is divided into malum culpae, and malum poena, the evil of punishment is necessarily the effect of the evil of sinne. But