A treatise of mans imaginations Showing his natural evil thoughtsA treatise of mans imaginations Shewing his naturall euill thoughts

Touching this thought, observe these four points. First, in whom it is: Secondly, how a man by thinking should deny God: Thirdly, what is the fruit of this ⟨p. 34⟩thought, and fourthly the examination of our hearts touching this thought.

Touching this thought, obserue these foure points. First, in whome it is: Secondly, how a man by thinking should denie God: Thirdly, what is the fruit of this ⟨p. 34⟩thought, and fourthly the examination of our hearts touching this thought.

For the first:¹ we must not think that this wicked thought is only in some notorious and heinous sinners; but it is in the corrupt mind and Imagination of every man that cometh of Adam naturally, not one excepted, save Christ alone: so the fool of whom David ^tspeaketh must be taken,³ not for some special sinner, but for every man that liveth uncalled & without repentance, how civill so ever his life be other ways; though some shame restrain his tongue from uttering it, yet by nature his corrupt heart is prone to think there is no God This is made evident by S. Paul, ^uwho ⟨p. 35⟩going about to prove that all men are sinners by nature, allegeth for his proof divers testimonies of Scripture and particularly out of these two Psalms before cited: whereby he gives us to understand, that the fool there mentioned, must be understood of every natural man. But it will be said, that it is ingrafted in mans nature to hold and think there is a God, & therefore every man doth not deny God in his heart. Ans. We must know that these two thoughts, There is a God, and there is no God, may be, and are both in one and the same heart: the same man that by the light of nature thinketh there is a God, may by that corruption & darkness of mind that