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

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.

Twelfthly, The horrible pollution of the mind is seen in its aptnesse to receive all §XIIthe Devils impressions and delusions, so that the most horrid and dreadfull blasphemies that can be imagined, have yet been entertained and broached by some men. Now the Devil could never possesse 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 sinne 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 devillish delusions be ever believed, if the mind had been free from sinne? The Enthusiasmes; 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 minde 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 minde: 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.