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

3. He doth not only say the thoughts, but the imagination, the very first rising and framing of them: It is a Metaphor from the Potter who doth frame his vessels upon a wheel in what shape he pleaseth: Thus the heart of man is continually shaping and effigiating some thoughts or other: Now these are not only sinful when formed, and it may be consented unto, but the very first fashioning of them, even as they rise immediately from the heart are sinful: If we explain it as others do, who observe this word signifieth to frame a thing with curious art and industry, then it aggravateth likewise, informing of us, that those thoughts which are polished by us in the most accurate manner they are altogether evil.

3. He doth not only say the thoughts, but the imagination, the very first rising and framing of them: It is a Metaphor from the Potter who doth frame his vessels upon a wheel in what shape he pleaseth: Thus the heart of man is continually shaping and effigiating some thoughts or other: Now these are not onely sinfull when formed, and it may be consented unto, but the very first fashioning of them, even as they rise immediately from the heart are sinfull: If we explain it as others do, who observe this word signifieth to frame a thing with curious art and industry, then it aggravateth likewise, informing of us, that those thoughts which are polished by us in the most accurate manner they are altogether evil.

4. Here is the Universality, Every Imagination; In those millions and millions of thoughts which arise in a man, like the motes in the air, there is not one good thought, all and every imagination.

4. Here is the Vniversality, Every Imagination; In those millions and millions of thoughts which arise in a man, like the motes in the air, there is not one good thought, all and every imagination.