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

4. As for the distinction assigned between sin and punishment, the one voluntary, ⟨p. 42⟩and an action, the other involuntary and a passion. Though there be learned men, both Papists and Protestants, viz. Vasquez and Twice, who disprove this by instances, yet (if it be granted) it will not hinder or enervate our Position, That original inherent sin is both a sin, and a punishment also; For when the learned say, That sin may be a punishment of a sin, they do not mean sin, quâ sin, peccatum, quâ peccatum, for that is, wholly of man, but peccatum quâ poena, as a judgment it is of God.

4. As for the distinction assigned between sinne and punishment, the one voluntary, ⟨p. 42⟩and an action, the other involuntary and a passion. Though there be learned men, both Papists and Protestants, viz. Vasquez and Twisse, who disprove this by instances, yet (if it be granted) it will not hinder or enervate our Position, That original inherent sinne is both a sinne, and a punishment also; For when the learned say, That sinne may be a punishment of a sinne, they do not mean sin, quâ sinne, peccatum, quâ peccatum, for that is, wholly of man, but peccatum quâ poena, as a judgment it is of God.

To understand this therefore, take notice, That in sin there is the Obliquity, and the Action to which this Obliquity is annexed; Now sin in the Obliquity of it, so it is not a punishment, but in the action or materiale of it, to which it doth adhere: As for instance, Those vile and unclean lusts the Heathens were given up unto, were a punishment of their rebellion unto the light; Now as they were sins in their formality, so they were only permissivè and ordinativè of God; but take the Actions subtracted to that Obliquity, which was in them, so they were efficienter of God, and he gave them up to their lusts.

To understand this therefore, take notice, That in sinne there is the Obliquity, and the Action to which this Obliquity is annexed; Now sinne in the Obliquity of it, so it is not a punishment, but in the action or materiale of it, to which it doth adhere: As for instance, Those vile and unclean lusts the Heathens were given up unto, were a punishment of their rebellion unto the light; Now as they were sinnes in their formality, so they were onely permissivè and ordinativè of God; but take the Actions substracted to that Obliquity, which was in them, so they were efficienter of God, and he gave them up to their lusts.