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

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.

There are some who complain, that we are too tragical in explaining the nature of original sin, that we aggravate it too much; but if we consider the scope of the holy Ghost in this place, we will easily be persuaded that none can say enough in this particular. For

There are some who complain, that we are too tragical in explaining the nature of original sinne, that we aggravate it too much; but if we consider the scope of the holy Ghost in this place, we will easily be perswaded that none can say enough in this particular. For