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

Lastly, Another Socinian saith, It is to be understood of actual sins, and not original, because it is in the Plural number, whereas original sin is but one.

Lastly, Another Socinian saith, It is to be understood of actual sinnes, and not original, because it is in the Plural number, whereas original sinne is but one.

The Answer is, That indeed the Septuagint, and so the Vulgar Latin they render it in the Plural number, in iniquities, &c. And thereupon it's disputed by the Schoolmen, Whether original sin be one or more sins? Some (though but few) say, it's more; Others, but one, and excuse their vulgar Translation, by saying, that it may be called sins in the Plural number, because it is the root of many, or because it being a body of sin, hath (as it were) many parts and members. Arminius likewise among other exceptions, brought this against their public Catechism, because it said Innata peccata in the Plural number, as if original sin were many sins: But all this Discourse is needless, for in the Hebrew it is in the Singular number, and so our Translators render it, and that David cannot mean actual sins, is plain, because he was born in this iniquity he speaketh of.

The Answer is, That indeed the Septuagint, and so the Vulgar Latine they render it in the Plural number, in iniquities, &c. And thereupon it's disputed by the Schoolmen, Whether original sinne be one or more sinnes? Some (though but few) say, it's more; Others, but one, and excuse their vulgar Translation, by saying, that it may be called sinnes in the Plural number, because it is the root of many, or because it being a body of sinne, hath (as it were) many parts and members. Arminius likewise among other exceptions, brought this against their publick Catechism, because it said Innata peccata in the Plural number, as if original sinne were many sinnes: But all this Discourse is needless, for in the Hebrew it is in the Singular number, and so our Translators render it, and that David cannot mean actual sinnes, is plain, because he was born in this iniquity he speaketh of.