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

Eighthly, The great pollution of original sin upon our minds is seen, In the §VIIIproneness to vain, idle, sinful and •oving thoughts, so that these do discover an unclean fountain of the heart more then any thing. Whence do these sparks arise, but from that furnace of sin within thee? The Air is not fuller of Flies; Egypt was not fuller of Frogs, then every mans heart is naturally of idle, vain, foolish and impertinent thoughts; Thoughts, they are the immediate product and issue of original sin; The first born, they are streams that come immediately from the fountain: Now certainly, if a man had by nature an holy sanctified mind, he would also have holy and sanctified thoughts. Think you that Adam in integrity, or the good Angels are troubled with thoughts as we are? For all the while a man is natural, he never had a good thought in him, he might have a thought of good, but not a good thought; For as every Cogitatio mali, is not Cogitatio malâ. We may think of evil to abhor and detest, and this thought of evil is good; So in a natural man, though he may have a thought about good, yet it is not in a good manner, and therefore evil, though the object matter be good; What then will prostrate thee, and make thee lie grovelling upon the ground, loathing thy self, if this do not? Amongst the millions and millions of thoughts which thou hast, there is not one, but it is either vain, proud, idle, or impertinent; yea our thoughts are not in our own power, no more then the birds that fly in the air, but they arise antecedently to our own will and deliberation; And certainly, if vain thoughts be such a burden to a regenerate man, if they do captivate and enthral him, which made one cry out, Libenter (Domine) bonus esse vellem, sed cogitationes meae non patiuntur, I would gladly be good, but my thoughts will not suffer me; No wonder, if to the natural man, who is under the power of original sin, that sinful thoughts hurry him away without any resistance.

Eighthly, The great pollution of original sinne upon our minds is seen, In the §VIIIpronenesse to vain, idle, sinfull and •oving thoughts, so that these do discover an unclean fountain of the heart more then any thing. Whence do these sparks arise, but from that furnace of sinne within thee? The Air is not fuller of Flies; Aegypt was not fuller of Frogs, then every mans heart is naturally of idle, vain, foolish and impertinent thoughts; Thoughts, they are the immediate product and issue of original sinne; The first born, they are streams that come immediately from the fountain: Now certainly, if a man had by nature an holy sanctified mind, he would also have holy and sanctified thoughts. Think you that Adam in integrity, or the good Angels are troubled with thoughts as we are? For all the while a man is natural, he never had a good thought in him, he might have a thought of good, but not a good thought; For as every Cogitatio mali, is not Cogitatio malâ. We may think of evil to abhorre and detest, and this thought of evil is good; So in a natural man, though he may have a thought about good, yet it is not in a good manner, and therefore evil, though the object matter be good; What then will prostrate thee, and make thee lie grovelling upon the ground, loathing thy self, if this do not? Amongst the millions and millions of thoughts which thou hast, there is not one, but it is either vain, proud, idle, or impertinent; yea our thoughts are not in our own power, no more then the birds that flie in the air, but they arise antecedently to our own will and deliberation; And certainly, if vain thoughts be such a burden to a regenerate man, if they do captivate and inthrall him, which made one cry out, Libenter (Domine) bonus esse vellem, sed cogitationes meae non patiuntur, I would gladly be good, but my thoughts will not suffer me; No wonder, if to the natural man, who is under the power of original sinne, that sinfull thoughts hurry him away without any resistance.