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, we are to note a great difference further between the Soul & sin in this regard; though all the soul be in every member as well as in the whole body, yet it is not in the same manner and excellency in the parts as in the whole. For it is in the whole to all the purposes of life, sense, and motion, but in the parts the whole Soul serves but for some special businesses. All the soul is in the eye, and all in the ear, but not in either to all purposes, for it sees only in the eye, and it hears only in the ear; But original sin is all in every man, and it serves in every man to all purposes: Not in one man only to commit adultery, in another idolatry, in another murder, or the like, but in every man it serves to commit sin against all the Law, to break every one of Gods commandments. A whole thing may belong wholly unto two men in several, by diverse ways of propriety, or unto sundry purposes; A house belongs wholly to the Landlord for the purpose of profit and revenue, and wholly to the tenant for the purpose of use and inhabitation; but it seems in ordinary reason impossible for the same thing to belong wholly to sundry men in regard of all purposes for which it serves. But such an ample propriety hath every man to original sin, that he holds it all, and to all purposes for which it serves. For though some sins there are which cannot by some men be properly committed (properly I say, because by way of provocation, or occasion, or approbation, or the like, one man may participate ⟨p. 195⟩in the sins which another commits) as a King cannot be […] to his superiors in government, because he hath no superiors; a lay man cannot commit the sinne• of a Minister, an unmarried man the sins of a husband, &c. yet this disability ariseth out of the exigence of personal conditions, but no way out of the limitedness or impotency of original sin, which in every man serves to all the purposes which can consist with that mans condition; and as his condition alters, so is it likewise fruitful unto new sins. And these are two great aggravations of this sinful inheritance That it comes whole unto every man; and that every man hath it unto all the purposes for which it serves.

Secondly, we are to note a great difference further between the Soule & sin in this regard; though all the soule be in every member as wel as in the whole body, yet it is not in the same manner and excellency in the parts as in the whole. For it is in the whole to all the purposes of life, sense, and motion, but in the parts the whole Soule serves but for some speciall businesses. All the soule is in the eye, and all in the eare, but not in either to all purposes, for it sees onely in the eye, and it heares onely in the eare; But originall sinne is all in every man, and it serves in every man to all purposes: Not in one man onely to commit adulterie, in another idolatry, in another murther, or the like, but in every man it serves to commit sinne against all the Law, to breake every one of Gods commandements. A whole thing may belong wholly unto two men in severall, by diverse wayes of propriety, or unto sundry purposes; A house belongs wholly to the Landlord for the purpose of profit and revenew, and wholly to the tenant for the purpose of use and inhabitation; but it seemes in ordinary reason impossible for the same thing to belong wholly to sundry men in regard of al purposes for which it serves. But such an ample propriety hath every man to originall sinne, that he holds it all, and to all purposes for which it serves. For though some sinnes there are which cannot by some men bee properly committed (properly I say, because by way of provocation, or occasion, or approbation, or the like, one man may participate