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

In the eighth place, The will having this great dominion over the whole soul, and being the universal appetite of a man, therefore it is that in it is seated obedience or disobedience to God. Obedience or disobedience to God is not properly, at least not primarily, or radically, in any part but in the will. It is true, all the other parts of the soul in regeneration are made holy and sanctified, and thereby in their way conformable to the will of God, yet obedience and disobedience are primarily acts of the will; so that as the will is qualified, so is a man said to be obedient to God: A good will is the good tree, that maketh the fruit good, and a bad will is the bad tree that maketh the fruit bad. As then all the evil or good of a tree cometh from the root, so doth all the evil or good of a man come from his will; For till this be sanctified, till this be renewed, nothing can be good in a man; Therefore if you examine, what is the cause of all the impiety, and all the wickedness that most commit, it is because their wills are corrupt, their wills are rebellious; Their minds, their consciences many times, tell them they ought to do otherwise, only their wills are stubborn and contumacious, Joh. 5. 40. Ye will not come unto me that ye may have life: So in the Parable, Mat. 21. 29. when the son was commanded to go, and work in the vineyard, he saith, I will not, It is then the will of man, that is the desperate and implacable enemy to all the things of God, men may delude themselves with reasons and fair glosses, but it is their will, and only their unsanctified will, that maketh them continue in such opposition to God; now the will is therefore the root of all obedience, of disobedience in a man, because that is like the Centurion in a mans soul, whatsoever it biddeth this, or that power of the soul do, it doth; what it bids the mind think, it thinketh; what it bids love to love, it loveth; what it bids the hand move to, it moveth to; for there are two acts of the will wherein it demonstrateth its dominion, The Elicit acts, and the Imperate; Elicit are those which the will doth immediately produce, as election, intention, consent, &c. and herein it hath full power, yet so, as that it's in subordination to God;

In the eighth place, The will having this great dominion over the whole soul, and being the universal appetite of a man, therefore it is that in it is seated obedience or disobedience to God. Obedience or disobedience to God is not properly, at least not primarily, or radically, in any part but in the will. It is true, all the other parts of the soul in regeneration are made holy and sanctified, and thereby in their way conformable to the will of God, yet obedience and disobedience are primarily acts of the will; so that as the will is qualified, so is a man said to be obedient to God: A good will is the good tree, that maketh the fruit good, and a bad will is the bad tree that maketh the fruit bad. As then all the evil or good of a tree cometh from the root, so doth all the evil or good of a man come from his will; For till this be sanctified, till this be renewed, nothing can be good in a man; Therefore if you examine, what is the cause of all the impiety, and all the wickedness that most commit, it is because their wills are corrupt, their wils are rebellious; Their minds, their consciences many times, tell them they ought to do otherwise, only their wils are slubborn and contumacious,