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

First, There hath been some, who have not so much seated it in the soul, as made the very soul and substance of a man to be original sin; So that we might properly and truly say, Man was sin it self. The Author of this was Flaccius Illyricus, who in many things is to be praised for his diligence and industry, but he was of a turbulent spirit, very restless; insomuch that in his studies at first, he was so greatly tempted, that many times public prayer was made for him in the solemn Assemblies. (Vide Horned. Sum. Controv. de Lutheranismo.) This man out of great earnestness to oppose Papists, yea and the Lutheran Strigelius, who extenuated original sin, fell into another extreme, making it to be the very substance of man. It is true, Some have excused him, as thinking his opinion was sound, only his words were obscure and dangerous, for he doth often distinguish between the Homo Physicus, and the Homo Theologicus, he maketh the Theological man, as he is in such a consideration to be only sinful. But surely it is as easy to understand Epicurus his Atoms, Pythagoras his numbers, Plato's Ideas, Aristotle's Entelechias, as Illirieus his Homo theologicus in the way he layeth it down, denying all along, that original sin is an accident. This opinion made a great rent among the Lutherans, whereof some were called Substantiarii, others Accidentarii, as Coceius the Papist relateth (Coccius Thes. de peccato.) but this is to be refused with great indignation: Original sin is most intimately cleaving to us, inseparably joined to the nature of man, yet it is not the nature of man, for then Christ could not have taken our nature without sin. Though therefore it be seated in the soul, and that most tenaciously, yet it is not the essence of a man: But of this more in its time.

FIrst, There hath been some, who have not so much seated it in the soul, as made the very soul and substance of a man to be original sinne; So that we might properly and truly say, Man was sinne it self. The Author of this was Flaccius Illyricus, who in many things is to be praised for his diligence and industry, but he was of a turbulent spirit, very restless; insomuch that in his studies at first, he was so greatly tempted, that many times publick prayer was made for him in the solemn Assemblies. (Vide Horned. Sum. Controv. de Lutheranismo.) This man out of great earnestness to oppose Papists, yea and the Lutheran Strigelius, who extenuated original sinne, fell into another extream, making it to be the very substance of man. It is true, Some have excused him, as thinking his opinion was sound, onely his words were obscure and dangerous, for he doth often distinguish between the Homo Physicus, and the Homo Theologicus, he maketh the Theological man, as he is in such a consideration to be onely sinfull. But surely it is as easie to understand Epicurus his Atoms, Pythagoras his numbers, Plato's Ideas, Aristotle's Entelechias, as Illirieus his Homo theologicus in the way he layeth it down, denying all along, that original sinne is an accident. This opinion made a great rent among the Lutherans, whereof some were called Substantiarii, others Accidentarii, as Coceius the Papist relateth (Coccius Thes. de peccato.) but this is to be refused with great indignation: Original sinne is most intimately cleaving to us, inseparably joyned to the nature of man, yet it is not the nature of man, for then Christ could not have taken our nature without sin. Though therefore it be seated in the soul, and that most tenaciously, yet it is not the essence of a man: But of this more in its time.