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

In the second place, Austin saith, and he saith it truly from Scripture, That original inherent sin, which he calleth concupiscence, is both a sin, a punishment of sin, and a cause of sin; Even as blindness of mind, or hardness of heart, is both a sin, a punishment, and a cause of further sin, (Lib. 5. contra Juhan. cap. 3.) That it is a sin appeareth by the many Texts already brought: And Austin's Reason in that place is very cogent, Quia inest illi inobedientia contra dominatum mentis; There is in it a disobedience against the dominion of mind and spirit, therefore the Spirit lusteth against it. That it is a punishment is manifest by the event, for upon Adam's disobedience he lost Gods Image, and so hath blindness in mind, perverseness in his will, and a disorder over the whole man, in which dreadful and horrible estate we all succeed him: and this the Text in hand speaketh to. That it is the cause of sin is manifest, Gen. 6. 5. for from that corrupt heart of man, it is, That the imaginations of a mans heart are only evil, and that continually. This is a furnace red hot, which always sends forth those sparks. Thus you see that original sin is all these three, a sin, a punishment, and a cause of sin.

In the second place, Austin saith, and he saith it truly from Scripture, That original inherent sinne, which he calleth concupiscence, is both a sinne, a punishment of sinne, and a cause of sin; Even as blindness of mind, or hardness of heart, is both a sinne, a punishment, and a cause of further sinne, (Lib. 5. contra Juhan. cap. 3.) That it is a sinne appeareth by the many Texts already brought: And Austin's Reason in that place is very cogent, Quia inest illi inobedientia contra dominatum mentis; There is in it a disobedience against the dominion of mind and spirit, therefore the Spirit lusteth against it. That it is a punishment is manifest by the event, for upon Adam's disobedience he lost Gods Image, and so hath blindness in mind, perversness in his will, and a disorder over the whole man, in which dreadfull and horrible estate we all succeed him: and this the Text in hand speaketh to. That it is the cause of sinne is manifest, Gen. 6. 5. for from that corrupt heart of man, it is, That the imaginations of a mans heart are only evil, and that continually. This is a furnace red hot, which alwayes sends forth those sparks. Thus you see that original sinne is all these three, a sin, a punishment, and a cause of sin.