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

Therefore to clear this, we are to know, that it is true, Atheism, ignorance; these are actual sins, as they are put in exercise, but yet when we ascribe them to original sin, we do not so much mean, the actual exercise of these evils, as the Proneness and propensity of the heart to them: So that our meaning is, The heart of it self is prone to all these actual wickednesses; Therefore ⟨p. 212⟩though we name these as actual, yet you must understand them, habitually and seminally, there being an inclination to all that impiety.

Therefore to clear this, we are to know, that it is true, Atheisme, ignorance; these are actual sinnes, as they are put in exercise, but yet when we ascribe them to original sinne, we do not so much mean, the actual exercise of these evils, as the Proneness and propensity of the heart to them: So that our meaning is, The heart of it self is prone to all these actual wickednesses; Therefore ⟨p. 212⟩though we name these as actual, yet you must understand them, habitually and seminally, there being an inclination to all that impiety.

Only the reason, why we describe original sin thus, as if it were actual pollution, it is, Because that it is a principle always acting, it never ceaseth; the sparks of this lust are like those of hell which never go out; as the heart of a man naturally, never ceaseth its motion, so neither doth the evil heart of a man.

Only the reason, why we describe original sinne thus, as if it were actual pollution, it is, Because that it is a principle alwaies acting, it never ceaseth; the sparkes of this lust are like those of hell which never go out; as the heart of a man naturally, never ceaseth its motion, so neither doth the evil heart of a man.