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

The third Argument for our mortality, and also actual death by original sin, is taken from those assertory places, which do in express words say so. Not to mention my sext, which hath said enough to this truth already. We may take notice of other places affirming this. And certainly that passage of Pauls, Rom. 5▪ 12. may presently come into every mans mind, By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned. It is true, we told you Calvin maketh the Apostle to speak of spiritual death here, as in my Text of temporal death, which the coherence also doth confirm; but though that be principally intended, yet not totally. Even temporal death is likewise to be understood, as being the beginning and introduction to eternal death, if the grace of God doth not prevent. We have then the Apostle attributing death not to mans creation at first, but to his disobedience: Neither is this death upon men, because of their actual sins, but because of Adam's disobedience by whom we are made sinners, yea in whom we have sinned; That [Greek or Hebrew] is diversly translated, and much contention about it, viz. whether it should be rendered in whom, or causally, for as much? It is true, the Preposition [Greek or Hebrew], as learned men observe, is used in the New Testament variously, sometimes for [Greek or Hebrew], Luke 5. 5. sometimes for [Greek or Hebrew], Luke 10. 9. sometimes for [Greek or Hebrew], Acts 3. 16. and otherwise; but for ought I can observe it may very well be understood for [Greek or Hebrew], as Mark 2. 4. & Luke 2. 25. The Scripture useth [Greek or Hebrew] for quatentus, as Rom. 11. 13. And indeed this is most consonant to the Apostles scope; for why should Adam's sin be brought in rather than other parents? Were it not that we were considered in him under a common respect, as one with him. It is true Erasmus saith, he doth not remember that ever he read [Greek or Hebrew] for [Greek or Hebrew] with a Dative case; but