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

Hitherto we have been discovering original sin, as seated in the understanding, the Metropolis (as it were) of the soul. We now proceed to manifest it, as polluting the Conscience of every man by nature; and certainly this is more lamentable and dreadful then the former; For if the understanding be amongst the other powers of the soul, as gold amongst other metals, conscience is the pearl or diamond in that gold; If the understanding be the eye of the soul, conscience is the apple of the eye: who would not think that our conscience like Job's messenger had escaped in the fall of Adam, bringing us tidings of all the spiritual loss we had thereby, only that was not hurt, but this Text will inform us, That from the head to the sole of the feet (as it were) there was no place free, but that we are totum unlnus, so many Lazarus's, not one place without these spiritual ulcers.

HItherto we have been discovering original sinne, as seated in the understanding, the Metropolis (as it were) of the soul. We now proceed to manifest it, as polluting the Conscience of every man by nature; and certainly this is more lamentable and dreadfull then the former; For if the understanding be amongst the other powers of the soul, as gold amongst other metals, conscience is the pearl or diamond in that gold; If the understanding be the eye of the soul, conscience is the apple of the eye: who would not think that our conscience like Job's messenger had escaped in the fall of Adam, bringing us tidings of all the spiritual loss we had thereby, only that was not hurt, but this Text will inform us, That from the head to the sole of the feet (as it were) there was no place free, but that we are totum vnlnus, so many Lazarus's, not one place without these spiritual ulcers.

For the understanding of the Text, we may take notice, that Titus exercising his ministerial office now at Crete (whether as a settled officer and Metropolitan, which some highly contend for, or rather as a temporary and extraordinary officer, an Evangelist, is not here to be disputed.) Paul writeth this Epistle to him concerning his end, why he left him there, and also exciteth him to a lively performance of his office, especially in a sharp and severe rebuking of them, because of their doting still about Jewish fables and ceremonies, [Greek or Hebrew], clearly without ambiguities, [Greek or Hebrew], so Varinus, or [Greek or Hebrew], so Hesychius, or cuttingly (as it were) to go to the bottom of the putrefied sore, that no unsound core be left behind, so Illyricus. And to evidence the crime of the Cretans the more, he brings a testimony from Epimenides, whom he calls their Prophet by way of conception, for they esteemed him so, sacrificing to him, for he pretended