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A treatise of mans imaginations Showing his natural evil thoughtsA treatise of mans imaginations Shewing his naturall euill thoughts
A treatise of mans imaginations Showing his natural evil thoughts: His want of good thoughts: The way to reform them. Framed and preached by M. Will. Perkins.A treatise of mans imaginations Shewing his naturall euill thoughts: His want of good thoughts: The way to reforme them. Framed and preached by M. Wil. Perkins.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1607Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1607
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
By mans heart, we must not understand the heart of some particular persons, as of those that lived in the old world alone, ⟨p. 21⟩but of all men generally: man being put for whole mankind.
By mans heart, we must not vnderstand the heart of some particular persons, as of those that liued in the old world alone, ⟨p. 21⟩but of all men generally: man beeing put for whole mankind.
Is evil, that is, it imagineth, and thinketh that which is against the law of God: From his childhood; that is, so soon as he beginneth to think, to reason or conceive of any thing, so soon doth he imagine & conceive that which is evil: so that the whole meaning is this, The mind & understanding part of man is naturally so corrupt, that so soon as he can use reason: he doth nothing but imagine that which is wicked, and against the law of God. The words thus explained contain in them two main points touching the frame of mans heart by nature. The first is this;
Is euill, that is, it imagineth, and thinketh that which is against the lawe of God: From his childhood; that is, so soone as he beginneth to thinke, to reason or conceiue of any thing, so soone doth hee imagine & conceiue that which is euill: so that the whole meaning is this, The minde & vnderstanding part of man is naturally so corrupt, that so soone as he can vse reason: he doth nothing but imagine that which is wicked, and against the lawe of God. The words thus explaned containe in them two maine points touching the frame of mans heart by nature. The first is this;