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…

Sin is a spiritual Death, and man by his first fall did incur a subjection to every thing which may be called Death, so that then a man did pass into the possession of sin; whence that phrase spoken of before, Thou hast ¹sold thy self to work evill. Now Quod venditur transit in potestatem ementis, when a thing is sold it passeth into the possession of that to which it is sold. This is the covenant or bargain between a Sinner and Hell, Man purchaseth the pleasures and wages of sin, and sin takes the possession of man; possession of his nature in Original sin, and possession of his life in Actual sin.

Sinne is a spirituall Death, and man by his first fall did incurre a subjection to every thing which may be called Death, so that then a man did passe into the possession of sinne; whence that phrase spoken of before, Thou hast ¹sold thy selfe to worke evill. Now Quod venditur transit in potestatem ementis, when a thing is sold it passeth into the possession of that to which it is sold. This is the covenant or bargaine betweene a Sinner and Hell, Man purchaseth the pleasures and wages of sinne, and sinne takes the possession of man; possession of his nature in Originall sinne, and possession of his life in Actuall sinne.

1. 1Isaiah. 28. 15.Esai. 28. 15.

The trial of this title of sin, that we may discern whether we are under it or no, must be as other Titles are; we must first inquire who they are, unto whose right and possession a man may belong, and then examine the Evidences which either can make for himself. To sin we know doth appertain the primitive right of every¹