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

Come we then to the next act of the Will, which is an absolute and efficacious willing of a thing, and here no tongue of men and Angels can express the depravation of it; For if we do consider the true proper and adequate object of the will, it is God only; He is the supreme and universal good, having in him after an eminent manner all good whatsoever; So that no object can fill the capacity of the will but God only. The good things of the creature can no more fill up the will, then the air can the stomach of an hungry man; but if we consider how it standeth with our will, as it is now corrupted, of all objects it is most averse to God; Hence the Scripture describeth every wicked man by this, That he hateth God, not under the notion as he is good, but as he is holy, as he is a just Judge, who will punish every wicked transgressor; Know then, and bewail this unspeakable defilement upon thy will, that it is most averse to its proper object, no stone doth more naturally descend to the centre, then thy will should tend to God, Amor mens pondus meum, illuc feror, quocunque feror, A mans love is his weight; now if thy love be spiritual, that weigheth thee to God, but if thy will be carnal, that presseth thee to carnal objects.

COme we then to the next act of the Will, which is an absolute and efficacious willing of a thing, and here no tongue of men and Angels can expresse the depravation of it; For if we do consider the true proper and adequate object of the will, it is God only; He is the supreme and universal good, having in him after an eminent manner all good whatsoever; So that no object can fill the capacity of the will but God only. The good things of the creature can no more fill up the will, then the air can the stomack of an hungry man; but if we consider how it standeth with our will, as it is now corrupted, of all objects it is most averse to God; Hence the Scripture describeth every wicked man by this, That he hateth God, not under the notion as he is good, but as he is holy, as he is a just Judge, who will punish every wicked transgressor; Know then, and bewail this unspeakable defilement upon thy will, that it is most averse to its proper object, no stone doth more naturally descend to the center, then thy will should tend to God, Amor mens pondus meum, illuc feror, quocunque feror, A mans love is his weight; now if thy love be spiritual, that weigheth thee to God, but if thy will be carnal, that presseth thee to carnal objects.