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

First, You must know that although Original sin be not a Scripture-name, but called so first by Austin, forced thereunto by the Pelagians, yet the truth of it is in the Scripture; And it is lawful to use new words though not in Scripture, when the matter is contained therein, to discover and distinguish Heretics. Now we call it original sin in a three-fold respect:

First, You must know that although Original sinne be not a Scripture-name, but called so first by Austin, forced thereunto by the Pelagians, yet the truth of it is in the Scripture; And it is lawfull to use new words though not in Scripture, when the matter is contained therein, to discover and distinguish Hereticks. Now we call it original sin in a three-fold respect:

First, Because we have it from our first parents fallen, who were the original and fountain of all mankind. It's not an actual voluntary sin, immediately and personally committed by us, but it is in us antecedently to our own personal will, both our mind and will comes into the world habitually darkened and obstinate against what is good.

First, Because we have it from our first parents fallen, who were the original and fountain of all mankind. It's not an actual voluntary sinne, immediatly and personally committed by us, but it is in us antecedently to our own personal will, both our mind and will comes into the world habitually darkned and obstinate against what is good.

Secondly, Its original, Because we have it as soon as we have our being. It's bred in us, and can no more be taken from our natures in an ordinary way, than mortality from our bodies: For although it be not the substance and essence of a man, yet the Scripture calling it the old man, and our members, not in Illyricus his sense, doth thereby signify the intimate inhesion of it in us, that it is in us, as it were, leaven in the whole lump, which soureth all; we have it in our being, which made Ambrose say, Cujus ortus in vitio est, which Austin often mentioneth; yea, we were conceived in it, as