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

SECT. I.

This later part of the Chapter is the Common-place and proper seat of the Doctrine of original sin, but the understanding of it is very difficult, for there are Textual and Grammatical obscurities by the Hyperbatons, Anantapodotons, and defective expressions, which are usual in Paul, whose matter runneth like a torrent, and cannot be so well bounded by words: And as the Grammatical expression makes it doubtful, so also the profundity and depth of that admirable matter, which is here delivered, addeth to the difficulty of it: For Austin of old said truly, Antiquo peccato nihil ad praedicandum notius, nihil ad intelligendum secretius, It's easily known that there is such a thing, but what it is, is a great mystery, and secret: Insomuch that Salmeron, though a Jesuit, upon the consideration of the difficulties in this Discourse of the Apostle, spake gravely, Non tam Thesei filo, quam Spiritu Sancto, & lumine quo conscripta est, &c. We do not need Theseus his twine of thread, but the holy Ghost, and that light by which this Epistle was wrote to guide us. Not therefore to speak much of the Coherence, which is so much vexed by learned men, in the Dispute of original imputed sin, especially that [Greek or Hebrew], of which in time I shall take notice.

THis later part of the Chapter is the Common-place and proper seat of the Doctrine of original sinne, but the understanding of it is very difficult, for there are Textual and Grammatical obscurities by the Hyperbatons, Anantapodotons, and defective expressions, which are usual in Paul, whose matter runneth like a torrent, and cannot be so well bounded by words: And as the Grammatical expression makes it doubtfull, so also the profundity and depth of that admirable matter, which is here delivered, addeth to the difficulty of it: For Austin of old said truly, Antiquo peccato nihil ad praedicandum notius, nihil ad intelligendum secretius, It's easily known that there is such a thing, but what it is, is a great mystery, and secret: Insomuch that Salmeron, though a Jesuite, upon the consideration of the difficulties in this Discourse of the Apostle, spake gravely, Non tam Thesei filo, quam Spiritu Sancto, & lumine quo conscripta est, &c. We do not need Theseus his twine of thred, but the holy Ghost, and that light by which this Epistle was wrote to guide us. Not therefore to speak much of the Coherence, which is so much vexed by learned men, in the Dispute of original imputed sinne, especially that , of which in time I shall take notice.