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

They are called, curious arts. Furthermore this curiosity of the mind is seen, in nauseating and disdaining known things, and what are already discovered, and ambitiously thirsting to find out some Veritas incognita, as others have done Terra incognita, To bring such new things to the world, that were never known, or heard before: It's from this sinful curiosity, that men forsake the good Truths of God, and run after heresies, errors, and whatsoever hath novellisme in it: so that he, who would examine himself about his regeneration, must look to the renovation of his mind in this particular, as well as any other.

They are called, curious arts. Furthermore this curiosity of the mind is seen, in nauseating and disdaining known things, and what are already discovered, and ambitiously thirsting to find out some Veritas incognita, as others have done Terra incognita, To bring such new things to the world, that were never knowen, or heard before: It's from this sinful curiosity, that men forsake the good Truths of God, and runne after heresies, errors, and whatsoever hath novellisme in it: so that he, who would examine himself about his regeneration, must look to the renovation of his mind in this particular, as well as any other.

Fourthly, Original sin discovereth it self in our minds, by the vanity that §IIIIthey are filled with, 1 Cor. 3▪ 20, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain; If the thoughts of wise men (without the Scripture) be vain, how much more of men, who have no more then natural ability? And certainly this must needs be a very heavy censure upon man, that he who hath the best parts, the greatest understanding, yet till grace sanctify, he is but a vain man; His mind is a vain mind, his understanding is a vain understanding; many ways the vanity of it might be discovered, as thus, The understanding of man is naturally more affected with pleasing things, then with solid and sound Truths; it is more affected with words, language, jests, and merry tales, then with that matter which tendeth to spiritual edification; Is not this a great instance of the vanity upon our minds? to regard leaves more then fruit, chaff more then good seed, pictures and shows more then substances: whence ariseth that delight in embroidered language, in plays and Comedies, and in Romances, and such bubbles, and empty vapours, but from a vanity upon mans mind? To be pleased with stories, and merry tales, more then a powerful and divine Sermon? Is not this, because mans mind is vain? Since mans fall, as the will, though a noble part of the soul, yet doth act dependently and slavishly to the sensitive appetite; we will not what is good, and the acceptable will of God, but what our sinful affections suggest to us: so the understanding, though the sacred faculty, (as it were) of the soul, yet