The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

To quicken your industry in this, know, that the motions of original sin, as they are permanent, so they are exceeding violent, and impetuous. I remember the learned Davenaunt, de justitia habituali & actually, cap. 5. gives this difference, between the remission of actual and original sin: when actual sins are forgiven, saith he, penitus tolluntur, quoad maculam & reatum, both as to their guilt and filth: but it is not so with original sin, the guilt is done away, but the stain remains; this is a sin that dwells in us, that abides in us, and abides by us; we shall not ⟨p. 59⟩be rid of the body of death, till the death of the body! sin is an ill tenant, it will not out till the house fall upon its head: now the certainty of the inherence of this sin, is an argument of the more efficaciousness of its operation, modus operandi, sequitur modum essendi: Unquenchable fire burns more fervently, then that which may be extinguished; the reason why the Angels at this day do the will of God, in a more eminent way, then the Saints on earth, is, because they have such a principle of holiness, as cannot be lost to eternity, whereas the Saints on earth have a weaker principle of holiness, which may unhappily be abated, though it be recruited again: the reason why the soul of an healthful person, moves and acts with more vivacity, and energy, and power, then the soul of a sick man, is because in the latter, it may be departing, and taking its leave of the body, or at lest may be in danger so to do, whereas the former, being a man of an hail and good constitution of body, the soul may act, inform enliven it many years.

To quicken your industry in this, know, that the motions of original sin, as they are permanent, so they are exceeding violent, and impetuous. I remember the learned Davenaunt, de justitia habituali & actuali, cap. 5. gives this difference, between the remission of actual and original sin: when actual sins are forgiven, saith he, penitus tolluntur, quoad maculam & reatum, both as to their guilt and filth: but it is not so with original sin, the guilt is done away, but the stain remains; this is a sin that dwells in us, that abides in us, and abides by us; we shall not ⟨p. 59⟩be rid of the body of death, till the death of the body! sin is an ill tenant, it will not out till the house fall upon its head: now the certainty of the inherence of this sin, is an argument of the more efficaciousness of its operation, modus operandi, sequitur modum essendi: Unquenchable fire burns more fervently, then that which may be extinguished; the reason why the Angels at this day do the will of God, in a more eminent way, then the Saints on earth, is, because they have such a principle of holiness, as cannot be lost to eternity, whereas the Saints on earth have a weaker principle of holiness, which may unhappily be abated, though it be recruited again: the reason why the soul of an healthful person, moves and acts with more vivacity, and energy, and power, then the soul of a sick man, is because in the latter, it may be departing, and taking its leave of the body, or at lest may be in danger so to do, whereas the former, being a man of an hayle and good constitution of body, the soul may act, inform enliven it many years.