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

But our Saviour speaking of one kind of freedom and slavery, and they of another, he doth in the next verse more particularly open his meaning, and withal layeth a foundation to prove, That though they boasted and gloried in their freedom, yet they were indeed servants and slaves; This he proveth by that universal Proposition, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin; You must lay an Emphasis in that [Greek or Hebrew], it is not to be understood of every actual committing of sin, but of the wilful, habitual and constant committing of it: And thus though great men may boast in their Sovereignty they have over many others; though they may glory in multitude of servants, yet if they be overcome by any one vice, they be the vilest slaves and vassals of all, Quot vitia, tot Domini, so many vices, so many Lords: Now original sin that is a Lord and Master to every one, that reigneth over all mankind; some actual sins enslave one man, and some another; but original sin doth every man; yea though the godly are (in some measure) freed from the dominion of it, yet it keepeth up a tyrannical dominion over the most holy, as appeareth Rom. 7. by that complaint of Paul, He could not do the good he would, because he was sold under sin.

But our Saviour speaking of one kind of freedome and slavery, and they of another, he doth in the next verse more particularly open his meaning, and withall layeth a foundation to prove, That though they boasted and gloried in their freedome, yet they were indeed servants and slaves; This he proveth by that universal Proposition, Whosoever committeth sinne is the servant of sinne; You must lay an Emphasis in that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, it is not to be understood of every actual committing of sinne, but of the wilfull, habitual and constant committing of it: And thus though great men may boast in their Sovereignty they have over many others; though they may glory in multitude of servants, yet if they be overcome by any one vice, they be the vilest slaves and vassals of all, Quot vitia, tot Domini, so many vices, so many Lords: Now original sinne that is a Lord and Master to every one, that reigneth over all mankind; some actual sinnes enslave one man, and some another; but original sinne doth every man; yea though the godly are (in some measure) freed from the dominion of it, yet it keepeth up a tyrannical dominion over the most holy, as appeareth