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

To open which you must understand, that we have here related the Cause of that universal and dreadful judgement which God brought upon the whole world; The cause was that universal and desperate wickedness, whereby all flesh had corrupted their ways; The long-suffering of God would bear no longer, especially they being so often admonished by Noah the preacher of righteousness: Thus the general actual impieties every where abounding on the face of the earth, is the proxim and immediate cause of drowning of the world.

To open which you must understand, that we have here related the Cause of that universal and dreadfull judgement which God brought upon the whole world; The cause was that universal and desperate wickednesse, whereby all flesh had corrupted their wayes; The long-suffering of God would bear no longer, especially they being so often admonished by Noah the preacher of righteousnesse: Thus the general actual impieties every where abounding on the face of the earth, is the proxim and immediate cause of drowning of the world.

Secondly, We have the remote and mediate cause, which is internal, and that is, the universal sinfulness of every mans heart by nature, which is always emptying it self into sinful thoughts and lusts, so that it is never quiet, or like a fountain sealed up, but diffusing it self into poisonous streams; There are always sparks flying out of this furnace.

Secondly, We have the remote and mediate cause, which is internal, and that is, the universal sinfulnesse of every mans heart by nature, which is alwayes emptying it self into sinfull thoughts and lusts, so that it is never quiet, or like a fountain sealed up, but diffusing it self into poisonous streams; There are always sparks flying out of this furnace.

Now this natural pollution is described in the most emphatical manner that can be.