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

Eleventhly, Original sin polluteth the mind in regard of the difference and diversity §XIof thoughts and judgements of men in the things of God. Had Adam continued in the state of integrity, all had been of one mind, of one way: In Heaven also, when all imperfection shall be done away, they shall all think and speak the same things; but now there are divisions and different ways in Religion, one admiring that which another condemneth, which proclaimeth that man hath a Babel upon his understanding. It is no wonder, that among Philosophers there were such infinite Sects; for if you view that part of the world which owneth the Christian Religion, what varieties, what differences, what oppositions are there, and that though we have the Scripture to guide us? This doth evidently manifest, That the mind of man is filled with deep pollution by original sin.

Eleventhly, Original sinne polluteth the mind in regard of the difference and diversity §XIof thoughts and judgements of men in the things of God. Had Adam continued in the state of integrity, all had been of one mind, of one way: In Heaven also, when all imperfection shall be done away, they shall all think and speak the same things; but now there are divisions and different ways in Religion, one admiring that which another condemneth, which proclaimeth that man hath a Babel upon his understanding. It is no wonder, that among Philosophers there were such infinite Sects; for if you view that part of the world which owneth the Christian Religion, what varieties, what differences, what oppositions are there, and that though we have the Scripture to guide us? This doth evidently manifest, That the mind of man is filled with deep pollution by original sinne.

Twelfthly, The horrible pollution of the mind is seen in its aptness to receive all §XIIthe Devils impressions and delusions, so that the most horrid and dreadful blasphemies that can be imagined, have yet been entertained and broached by some men. Now the Devil could never possess the mind of a man so, but because of this original corruption. Some there were called Caiani, that boasted of Cain, and commended Esau, yea Judas, and that he did not sin in betraying Christ. Some have called the holy Trinity, Triceps Cerberus. Some have thought themselves Christ, and the Spirit of God. Now how could these devilish delusions be ever believed, if the mind had been free from sin? The Enthusiasms; The Revelations that the Monasterii Anabaptis, as also John of Leiden pretended to, upon which they acted resolutely and violently, may abundantly teach us, what monstrous births the mind of a man will deliver, if left to it self: So that what is said of the Devil incubus, bodily, is much more true of the mind: What will not the understanding of a man believe, and be resolute for, when it hath once, (Pleniorem gratiam à Diabolo) obtained more of the Devils grace, as Tertullian speaks ironically of some Heretiques, De praesc.