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…

Look what he did, what contradiction he endured, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds; Look what he promiseth, a victory against our lusts, and a Crown after our victory. Look when he cometh, 'tis yet but a little while; The coming of the Lord draweth nigh, the Lord is at hand; Call to ⟨p. 193⟩him, he is within the voice of thy prayer, he will come to strengthen thee; wait upon him, he is within the eye of thy Faith, he will come to reward thee. Look upon the Cloud of witnesses, those that are now the Church of the first-borne, and have their Palms in their hands; they all went through the same combat, they were all beset with alike infirmities, they were all men of the same passions with us, let us be men of the same patience with them.

Looke what hee did, what contradiction hee endured, lest yee bee wearied and faint in your minds; Looke what he promiseth, a victory against our lusts, and a Crowne after our victory. Looke when he commeth, 'tis yet but a little while; The comming of the Lord draweth nigh, the Lord is at hand; Call to ⟨p. 193⟩him, he is within the voyce of thy prayer, hee will come to strengthen thee; waite upon him, he is within the eye of thy Faith, he will come to reward thee. Looke upon the Cloud of witnesses, those that are now the Church of the first-borne, and have their Palmes in their hands; they all went through the same combate, they were all beset with alike infirmities, they were all men of the same passions with us, let us bee men of the same patience with them.

Now lastly, consider the Propagation of this sin. Which may therefore well be called an old man, because it dies not, but passeth over from one generation to another; A mans Actual sins are personal, and therefore Intransient, they begin and end in himself; but original sin is natural, and therefore with the nature it passeth over from a man to his posterity. It is an entail that can never be cut of, it hath held from Adam and will so continue to the worlds end holding all men in an unavoidable service and villanage unto Satan the Prince of this world. In Humane Tenures if a man leave a personal estate to all his children indefinitely, without singling out and designing this portion to one and that to another, though it be true to say that there is nothing in that estate which any one of the children can lay an entire claim unto as his own, but that the rest have joint interest in it, (for the children, though many in persons, are yet but one proprietary in regard of right in the estate of their father, till there be a severance made) yet notwithstanding a Partition may be legally procured, and there is a kind of virtual or fundamental severance before, which was the ground of that which is afterwards real and legal: But now in this wretched Inheritance of sin which Adam left to all his posterity, we are to note this mischief in the first place, that there is no virtual partition, but it is left whole to every child of Adam. All have it, and yet every one hath it all too. Soe that as Philosophers