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

So that there is a great difference between the In•dwelling of original sin in a natural man, and a regenerate; In the former it dwelleth indeed, but as the Jebusites in Canaan, upon hard terms, as the Gibeonites were in subjection to the Israelites. It is true, Arminius (In Cap. 7. ad Rom. pag. 696.) from this expression of sin dwelling in Paul, doth think a firm argument may be drawn, to prove that he discourseth of an unregenerate person, Because (saith he) the word to dwell, doth in its proper signification, and in the use of the Scripture signify a full and powerful dominion, and therefore rejecteth that distinction of Peccatum dominans, or regnans, which is said to be in wicked men, and inhabitants, which is in the godly; he would have it called inexistens, not inhabitants: But we have showed, That sin is said to dwell in a man, not because of its dominion in a ⟨p. 91⟩godly man, but because of its fixed inseparability, and from this word a servant, who hath no rule in an house, is called [Greek or Hebrew], 1. Pet. 2. 18.

So that there is a great difference between the In•dwelling of original sinne in a natural man, and a regenerate; In the former it dwelleth indeed, but as the Jebusites in Canaan, upon hard terms, as the Gibeonites were in subjection to the Israelites. It is true, Arminius (In Cap. 7. ad Rom. pag. 696.) from this expression of sinne dwelling in Paul, doth think a firm argument may be drawn, to prove that he discourseth of an unregenerate person, Because (saith he) the word to dwell, doth in its proper signification, and in the use of the Scripture signifie a full and powerfull dominion, and therefore rejecteth that distinction of Peccatum dominans, or regnans, which is said to be in wicked men, and inhabitans, which is in the godly; he would have it called inexistens, not inhabitans: But we have shewed, That sinne is said to dwell in a man, not because of its dominion in a ⟨p. 91⟩godly man, but because of its fixed inseparability, and from this word a servant, who hath no rule in an house, is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,