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

That every one by nature hath his peculiar proper original sin, which doth betimes vent it self into actual evil. For the Text speaketh universally, there is not any to be exempted. It is made a Question in the Schools, Whether there be many, or one original sin only? Aquinas bringeth two Arguments for more original sins than one; The one is from the Text according to the Vulgar Translation, Psal. 51. 5. where it is rendered, In sins did my mother conceive me, in the Plural number; And then the second from Reason, because there being many actual sins, it cannot seem rational, that one original sin should incline to them all, seeing many times these sins flow from contrary principle; How may it be thought this one sin should carry a man out concupiscentially to so many contrary lusts? Therefore that this truth may be fully demonstrated, let us consider these Propositions:

That every one by nature hath his peculiar proper original sinne, which doth betimes vent it self into actual evil. For the Text speaketh universally, there is not any to be exempted. It is made a Question in the Schools, Whether there be many, or one original sinne onely? Aquinas bringeth two Arguments for more original sinnes than one; The one is from the Text according to the Vulgar Translation, Psal. 51. 5. where it is rendred, In sinnes did my mother conceive me, in the Plural number; And then the second from Reason, because there being many actual sinnes, it cannot seem rational, that one original sinne should incline to them all, seeing many times these sinnes flow from contrary principle; How may it be thought this one sinne should carry a man out concupiscentially to so many contrary lusts? Therefore that this truth may be fully demonstrated, let us consider these Propositions:

First, That such who deny any original inherent corruption, and make Adam's actual sin to be ours only by imputation, as Pighius and Catharinus, they will say, That there is but one original sin, which is by imputation made every mans; Even as by the light of one Sun, every man seeth, or (as some Philosophers say) there is one common Intelleotus agens, by which all men are enabled to understand; So that by this opinion every man hath not his peculiar inherent defilement, but that one actual transgression by imputation, is made the one common sin of mankind. Now although this is to be granted, That Adam's actual sin is made ours (which Chamier, and some French Protestants following him do dangerously deny) yet the Texts heretofore brought in this point, do evidently convince, That every one hath his peculiar native defilement that he is born in: So that original sin, though it may be called one in specie and proportion, yet when we come to every particular man, he hath his numerical and individual original sin in him: Although therefore there be as many original sins in the world, as there are men and women, yet in one man or one woman, there is but one original sin: Thus David,