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

Concerning our Subject of Original Sin, these particulars have been largely treated on, viz. That it is, What it is, and How it is communicated. The next thing therefore in our method to be considered, is, The Subject of Inhesion, wherein it is, in what part it doth reside, and what powers of the soul are corrupted by it. There is indeed made by Divines a two fold Subject of original sin.

COncerning our Subject of Original Sinne, these particulars have been largely treated on, viz. That it is, What it is, and How it is communicated. The next thing therefore in our method to be considered, is, The Subject of Inhesion, wherein it is, in what part it doth reside, and what powers of the soul are corrupted by it. There is indeed made by Divines a two fold Subject of original sinne.

1. Of Predication, the persons in whom it is affirmed to be, and that is in all who naturally come of Adam, Christ only is excepted; And in this there is not much controversy, only the Franciscan Papists opposing the Dominicans, do hotly contend, that the Virgin. ⟨p. 208⟩Mary was by special privilege exempted from original sin, Scotus seemeth to be the first, that made it received as a kind of an Ecclesiastical opinion, whereas formerly it was but thought doubtful, or at most probable: It is not worth the while to trouble you with this, and I may have occasion ere the subject be dispatched to say, what will be necessary to it: I shall therefore proceed to that which is more practical and profitable, even to search into the seat and bowels of this original sin, that we may be fully informed, no part of the soul is free from this pestilence. To which truth the Text in hand will contribute great assistance. And

1. Of Predication, the persons in whom it is affirmed to be, and that is in all who naturally come of Adam, Christ only is excepted; And in this there is not much controversie, onely the Francisean Papists opposing the Dominicans, do hotly contend, that the Virgin. ⟨p. 208⟩