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

The second Objection is propounded by Socinus,¹ who saith, It cannot be conceived, that one actual transgression of Adam should infect the whole nature of man, one Act cannot contract an habit of sin: So then he saith, It's impossible that one sinful act, should all ever defile Adam, and make him totally sinful, much less that it should infect the whole nature of man. And the Remonstrants they pursue this Argument, If (say they, Apolog, pro Confessione exam. Cens. cap. 7. pag. 85.) that one act of sin did expel all grave in Adam, then it did it, either quatenus peccatum, as it was a sin, and if so, then every little sin the godly man commits, much more gross sins would cast ⟨p. 58⟩him out of all grace, would root out the seed of God in him, which yet (say they) the Calvinists will in no wise endure; Or it cometh so from some peculiar ordination, and divine appointment of God; If so, they bid us, bring out that order, and manifest such an appointment, that one sin only should deprive a man of the whole Image of God, when now one sin doth not, or cannot extirpate the habit of grace; but every godly man hath sin and grace also in him.

The second Objection is propounded by Socinus,¹ who saith, It cannot be conceived, that one actual transgression of Adam should infect the whole nature of man, one Act cannot contract an habit of sinne: So then he saith, It's impossible that one sinfull act, should all ever defile Adam, and make him totally sinfull, much lesse that it should infect the whole nature of man. And the Remonstrants they pursue this Argument, If (say they, Apolog, pro Confessione exam. Cens. cap. 7. pag. 85.) that one act of sinne did expel all grave in Adam, then it did it, either quatenus peccatum, as it was a sinne, and if so, then every little sinne the godly man commits, much more grosse sinnes would cast ⟨p. 58⟩him out of all grace, would root out the seed of God in him, which yet (say they) the Calvinists will in no wise endure; Or it cometh so from some peculiar ordination, and divine appointment of God; If so, they bid us, bring out that order, and manifest such an appointment, that one sinne onely should deprive a man of the whole Image of God, when now one sinne doth not, or cannot extirpate the habit of grace; but every godly man hath sinne and grace also in him.