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

2. There is a practical, and experimental receiving of holy Truths in the power of them, which is here called, the knowing of Truths, as they are in Jesus, and this much less are we able to receive: To the former is required the common grace of God; To this a more special one. Wonder not then, if you see men, even the most learned, naturally so brutish, so ignorant about divine things, That they have no more understanding, and apprehension about heavenly things, Oh bewail original corruption, which maketh thee so unteachable, so untractable! Why doth not every Scripture-truth, every powerful Sermon have its full and powerful operation upon thee, but because it doth not me et with a prepared and fitted subject?

2. There is a practical, and experimental receiving of holy Truths in the power of them, which is here called, the knowing of Truths, as they are in Jesus, and this much less are we able to receive: To the former is required the common grace of God; To this a more special one. Wonder not then, if you see men, even the most learned, naturally so brutish, so ignorant about divine things, That they have no more understanding, and apprehension about heavenly things, Oh bewail original corruption, which maketh thee so unteachable, so untractable! Why doth not every Scripture-truth, every powerfull Sermon have its full and powerfull operation upon thee, but because it doth not me et with a preparedand fitted subject?

Thirdly, Original sin polluteth the understanding, by making it to incline to curiosity, and a prying into such things, which God hath not revealed. Adam's actual sin, which is our original imputed one, was partly this, They desired to be as gods, to know good and evil, which hath left its impression upon all: Like the Bethshemite, we desire to be looking into the Ark. The Apostle, 1 Cor. 4. 6, as he would not have the Corinthians, think of men, above that which is written, so much less of God contrary to that which is revealed: ⟨p. 213⟩