1. Confut. Man hath no power of himselfe to rule ever sinne.

1. Vers. 7. VNto thee his desire shall be subject, &c. From hence Bellarmine → and Pererius understand∣ing these words of subjection of sin, would prove,* that man hath free will by nature to sin, and not to sin, & dominari peccato, to rule over sin. Answer. 1. It is evident, that this place is understood not of the subjection of sin, but the submission of Abel to his brother, as Chrysostom expoundeth. 2. For of sin it was not true that Cain had dominion over it, as he had over his brother. 3. Neither can it properly be said, that sin hath a desire to the soule, but the soule rather to it. 4. The Septuagint translate, the conver∣sion 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 thereof, making no mention before of sin at all, whose conversion then is it but Abels, who was spoken of before? 5. And if they will understand it of sin it would follow that man by his naturall power only could resist the temptation of sin, which yet ← Bellarmine is ashamed to affirme.*