The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

First, In respect of all the powers and faculties of the mind, soul and body, which, as a Leprosy, it hath in every part infected, and as a general flood it hath wholly over-flown: As God himself speaketh of the heart, that the whole ^pframe of it is only evil continually, Gen. 6 The mind ^qfirst, the Queen and Lady Mistress of all other faculties, which the Philosophers so much extol, is reckoned amongst the most corrupt parts of man, 1. Tim. 6. 5. and 2. Timoth. 3. 8. Men corrupted in their mind. So Rom. 1. the Apostle attributeth to all men by nature, an ^rheart without understanding, and a ^smind void of judgement. Wherefore, Rom. 12. 2. he doth exhort us, Be transformed in the renewing of your mind. And Ephes. 4. 23. Be renewed in ^tthe spirit of your mind. So calling the very power and strength of our mind, or that which is most inward in the mind: The mind, as it were, of the mind it self, to show, that in those parts that of all other ought to be the soundest: and where the force of reason should be greatest, here this corruption hath taken fastest hold. Wherefore in another place he speaketh of that most excellent ^upower and faculty of the soul, whereby we reason, and discourse, and draw one thing out of another; That ^x