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

Secondly, There are some learned Protestants, that do distinguish of ens, or being; That ens is either created, as the works of the six days, or generated, as mankind, and the animate creatures, or made as artificial things, or prepared, as Heaven and Hell, or introduced, as sin; for it's said of sin, that it's [Greek or Hebrew]; So that upon this distinction they will say, That God is the cause of all made, and created beings, but not of introduced beings, such as sin is, because that came in by Satan's temptation, and mans disobedience. But this distinction hath scarce so much as a sandy foundation; for though it be an introduced being, yet because a being, it is a creature, and so must come from God the chief being, according to that of the Evangelist, John 1. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made: For that which is ens only by participation, must be reduced to that which is ens per essentiam. Therefore

Secondly, There are some learned Protestants, that do distinguish of ens, or being; That ens is either created, as the works of the six dayes, or generated, as mankind, and the animate creatures, or made as artificial things, or prepared, as Heaven and Hell, or introduced, as sinne; for it's said of sinne, that it's 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; So that upon this distinction they will say, That God is the cause of all made, and created beings, but not of introduced beings, such as sinne is, because that came in by Satans temptation, and mans disobedience. But this distinction hath scarce so much as a sandy foundation; for though it be an introduced being, yet because a being, it is a creature, and so must come from God the chief being, according to that of the Evangelist, John 1. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made: For that which is ens only by participation, must be reduced to that which is ens per essentiam. Therefore

In the third place, We must speak of original sin, as we do of vicious habits, and of actual sins; The material and substrate of them, being a good of nature is of God, but the vitiosity and obliquity that is of man, when a man moveth his tongue to curse and swear, or his hand to murder another: As they are actions they are of God, For in him we live, and move, and have our being; but as evil adhereth to them, so they are of man: Thus it is in original sin, when we say, there is a positive inclination in mans heart to all evil; The meaning is, That the understanding and will, as they are faculties, and as they do act, thus far they are of God, but as they cannot but act sinfully, and offend in every motion, so it's of Adam's disobedience, to understand then, to think, to will, to love, these are of God, but to love what is evil and contrary to Gods Word, or to love excessively and immoderately that which we are to do in subordination only, this is of our selves.