Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

Secondly, as there is furor in madness, so there is Amentia too, A distemper in the Intellectuals, as well as in the passions: Every man that is throughly mad is a fool too: And therefore the same original word is translated in one place madness, Luk. 6. 11. and in another place, folly, 2. Tim. 3. 9. Now this distemper is Twofold: for either it is an universal privation and defect of reason; or at least it is an inconsistency, a lubricity, a slipperiness of reason. And these are very deep in the nature of a man, folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and in spiritual things we are all children.

Secondly, as there is furor in madnesse, so there is Amentia too, A distemper in the Intellectuals, as well as in the passions: Every man that is throughly mad is a foole too: And therefore the same originall word is translated in one place madnesse, Luk. 6. 11. and in another place, follie, 2. Tim. 3. 9. Now this distemper is Twofold: for either it is an universall privation and defect of reason; or at least it is an inconsistency, a lubricitie, a slipperinesse of reason. And these are very deepe in the nature of a man, folly is bound up in the heart of a childe, and in spirituall things we are all children.

First, there is an universal ignorance and inconsiderateness of spiritual things in the nature of man, he takes less notice of his condition then the very brute beasts. The Ox knoweth his owner, and the Ass his masters crib, ¹but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. The St•rke in the heavens knoweth her appointed time, and the ²