A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

Let therefore the Use from the former Doctrine delivered, be, To affectus, and wound us at the very heart, that we are thus all over covered with sin, that we have not an understanding, but to sin, a will but to sin, an heart but to sin; May not this be like a two edged sword within thee? What will fire thee out of all thy self-confidence, thy self-righteousness, if this do not? What delight, what comfort canst thou take by beholding thy self, by looking on thy self thus corrupted and depraved? And the rather let this consideration go to the very bottom of thy soul. Because

LEt therefore the Use from the former Doctrine delivered, be, To affectus, and wound us at the very heart, that we are thus all over covered with sin, that we have not an understanding, but to sin, a will but to sin, an heart but to sin; May not this be like a two edged sword within thee? What will fire thee out of all thy self-confidence, thy self-righteousnesse, if this doe not? What delight, what comfort canst thou take by beholding thy self, by looking on thy self thus corrupted and depraved? And the rather let this consideration go to the very bottom of thy soul. Because

First, Thy propensity and inclination is to that only which God only hateth, which God only loatheth, and hath decreed to punish with his utmost wrath to all eternity. Consider that sin is the greatest evil; All the temporal evils in the world are but the effect of it, that is the cause. Now can it ever humble thee enough to think, that the whole bent, and constant tendency of thy soul is unto that which is the most abominable in the eyes of God? Thou canst not do that which is more destructive to thy own soul, and more dishonouring unto God, then by committing sin, and yet thou canst do nothing else, thou delightest in nothing else; Thy heart will not let thee do any thing else: Look over thy whole life, take notice how many years thou hast lived, and yet if not regenerated and delivered in some measure from the power of original corruption, thou hast done nothing but sinned; Every thought hath been a sin, every motion a sin within thee, and yet sin is the greatest evil, and that alone which God hateth.