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

EPHES. 2. 3. And were by nature the children of wrath, as well as others.

THE true Doctrine of Original Corruption is of so great concernment, that Austin thought, De Peccato Orig. contra Pelag. & Cellest. 2. cap. 24. the Sum of Religion to consist in knowing of this, as the effect of the first Adam, and also of Christ the second Adam with all his glorious benefits. Though therefore Coelestius of old thought it to be but Recquaestionis, not fides, Ibidem cap. 4. And others of late have wholly rejected it, as Austin's figment, yet certainly the true way of Humiliation for sin, or Justification by Christ, cannot be firmly established, unless the true Doctrine of this be laid as a Foundation-stone in the building.

THE true Doctrine of Original Corruption is of so great concernment, that Austin thought, De Peccato Orig. contra Pelag. & Celest. 2. cap. 24. the Summe of Religion to consist in knowing of this, as the effect of the first Adam, and also of Christ the second Adam with all his glorious benefits. Though therefore Coelestius of old thought it to be but Recquaestionis, not fides, Ibidem cap. 4. And others of late have wholly rejected it, as Austin's figment, yet certainly the true way of Humiliation for sinne, or Justification by Christ, cannot be firmly established, unless the true Doctrine of this be laid as a Foundation-stone in the building.

Now because original sin is used ambiguously by Divines, sometimes for Adam's first sin imputed unto us, (for, Omnes homines fuerunt ille unus homo) he was the common Person representing all mankind, as is in time to be showed; And this for distinction sake, is called, Original originans, or Original imputatum; And sometimes it's taken passively for the effect of that first sin of Adam, viz. The total and universal pollution of all mankind inherently through sin, which is called Original originatum, or inherens.