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

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.

In the third place, We must speak of original sinne, as we do of vicious habits, and of actual sinnes; 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 sinne, 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 farre 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.

A second Objection is, That if original sin be like a vicious habit in a man, then it cannot be transmitted unto posterity, for habits (they say) are personal things: No father doth communicate to his child any habits, either virtuous or vicious.