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

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.

First, Thy propensity and inclination is to that onely which God onely hateth, which God onely loatheth, and hath decreed to punish with his utmost wrath to all eternity. Consider that sinne 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 sinne, 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 sinne, every motion a sinne within thee, and yet sinne is the greatest evil, and that alone which God hateth.

Secondly, If yet thy heart be hard, and nothing will enter, take a second nail, or wedge to drive into thee, and that is, being thus all over carried out to sin, not the least good able to rise in thy heart, that hereby the very plain Image of the Devil is drawn over thee: Hence it is, that wicked men are said to be of their Father the Devil; and he is said to rule in the hearts of the children of disobedience,