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

1. [Greek or Hebrew] weight, by this is meant, all actual sin, especially love and cares about the world, for the earth is an element that descends downward, and so he who hath an earthly heart, cannot but have his soul press downward.

1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 weight, by this is meant, all actual sinne, especially love and cares about the world, for the earth is an element that descends downward, and so he who hath an earthly heart, cannot but have his soul presse downward.

2. There is the Root and cause of this, expressed in that phrase, The sin that doth so easily beset us, [Greek or Hebrew], the word is but once used, and that in this place, it's a two fold compound, and so the more emphatical, [Greek or Hebrew], which is as much here as easy, and [Greek or Hebrew], so that it is a sin which besetteth and compasseth us about, and that very easily, it finds no resistance, neither have we any power to withstand it.

2. There is the Root and cause of this, expressed in that phrase, The sinne that doth so easily beset us, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the word is but once used, and that in this place, it's a two fold compound, and so the more emphatical, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which is as much here as easie, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, so that it is a sinne which besetteth and compasseth us about, and that very easily, it finds no resistance, neither have we any power to withstand it.

Some understand this of actual sins, but not only Protestant Interpreters, but even some Papists also; Ribera and others understand it of Concupiscence within us; The word is made a Metaphor several ways; Erasmus renders it, Tenaciter adhaerentem, That sin which doth so tenaciously adhere to us, making