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

Adam's destruction, and of all his posterity, was of and through himself.

The next thing considerable in the Description, is the propagating and communicating of it to all his posterity that naturally descend from our first Parents. This also is very material to open the nature of this sin, that it's by propagation Adam's sin was not personal, as ours are, but common to the whole nature; Therefore the Apostle Rom. 5. putteth it upon one sin, or offence, and that by one man. The Pelagians were vehement opposers of this, and therefore called the Orthodox Traduciani, because they hold the traduction of this original sin, Adam being a common person, and he as our Head being in Covenant with God, when he became a Covenant-breaker, then we all forfeited all in and by him; So that it's the Covenant of God that is the foundation of communicating original sin, as far as sin can be communicated to all mankind, yet natural generation is the medium, or way of conveying it; But of this more in it's time.

The next thing considerable in the Description, is the propagating and communicating of it to all his posterity that naturally descend from our first Parents. This also is very material to open the nature of this sinne, that it's by propagation Adam's sinne was not personal, as ours are, but common to the whole nature; Therefore the Apostle Rom. 5. putteth it upon one sinne, or offence, and that by one man. The Pelagians were vehement opposers of this, and therefore called the Orthodox Traduciani, because they hold the traduction of this original sinne, Adam being a common person, and he as our Head being in Covenant with God, when he became a Covenant-breaker, then we all forfeited all in and by him; So that it's the Covenant of God that is the foundation of communicating original sinne, as farre as sinne can be communicated to all mankind, yet natural generation is the medium, or way of conveying it; But of this more in it's time.