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

yea, he sends into Greece, that by a public Edict, he might be acknowledged for a god, which the Lacedaemonians in scoff did without scruple admit, saying, Qundoquidem Alexander vult esse Deus, Deus esto; Seeing Alexander will be god, let him be one: But the Athenians being more scrupulous, or at least of greater hatred against him, punished Demades the Orator for advising them to receive him as god; for he had said, Look (O ye Athenians) Nè dumb coelum custodies terram amittatis, while ye keep heaven ye loose the earth: This carnal counsel, is admired as infallible policy almost by all the Potentates of the world; Thus you see what pride is latent in the will of a man, and how far it may rise by temptations; though the experience of humane imbecilities may quickly rebuke such mad insolencies, yet some excuse or other they use to put it off, as when it thundered, one asked Alexander, whether he could do so; he put it of, and said, he would not terrify his friends: if you say this corruption of the will is not in every man by nature, I grant it for the degree, but it is habitually and radically there. Let any man be put in such temptations, as Herod and Alexander were, and left alone to this inbred pride and original pollution, it would break out into as great a flame: Original sin needeth time to conceive, and bring forth its loathsome monsters.

yea, he sends into Greece, that by a publique Edict, he might be acknowledged for a god, which the Lacedemonians in scoff did without scruple admit, saying, Qundoquidem Alexander vult esse Deus, Deus esto; Seeing Alexander will be god, let him be one: But the Athenians being more scrupulous, or at least of greater hatred against him, punished Demades the Orator for advising them to receive him as god; for he had said, Look (Oye Athenians) Nè dum coelum custodies terram amittatis, while ye keep heaven ye loose the earth: This carnal counsel, is admired as infallible policy almost by all the Potentates of the world; Thus you see what pride is latent in the will of a man, and how farre it may rise by temptations; though the experience of humane imbecillities may quickly rebuke such mad insolencies, yet some excuse or other they use to put it off, as when it thundered, one asked Alexander, wheather he could do so; he put it of, and said, he would not terrifie his friends: if you say this corruption of the will is not in every man by nature, I grant it for the degree, but it is habitually and radically there. Let any man be put in such temptations, as Herod and Alexander were, and left alone to this inbred pride and original pollution, it would break out into as great a flame: Original sinne needeth time to conceive, and bring forth its loathsome monsters.