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

5. Here is not only the extension of this sin to every thought, but the intention likewise, It is only evil, there is no good at all in it; Godly men in their best actions have some sinfulness adhering to them; There is some water in their best wine, but here is all dross and no gold at all, only evil.

5. Here is not onely the extension of this sinne to every thought, but the intention likewise, It is onely evil, there is no good at all in it; Godly men in their best actions have some sinfulnesse adhering to them; There is some water in their best wine, but here is all drosse and no gold at all, only evil.

Lastly, Here is the Aggravation of it from the perpetuity; It is thus only evil, and that continually; Thus the holy Ghost, which is truth it self represents our Blackmore natures to humble and debase man, as also to justify God under any effects of his wrath and vengeance that he may bring upon us; How wretched then are the attempts of some Writers, who lay out the utmost of their power and wit, to make this sin nothing at all, (as Doctor Taylor, and as Papists) or to have very little guilt in it? If you say, This Text speaketh of actual sins, of evil imaginations, I grant it, but as flowing from original pollution, it speaketh of bitter fruit, but as flowing from that bitter root within; And […] the Scripture use to speak of this sin commonly, as putting it self […] immediate evil motions; because though original sin be not peccatum […] yet it is peccatum actuosum (as hath been said;) It is an acting, and an active sin, though not actual. Pererius would evade this Text by having it to be an hyperbole, or else to be true only of some particular wicked men, the Giants in those days; As for the hyperbole, which both Papists and Socinians so often fly unto, when the Scripture doth intend to exaggerate this sin, we shall easily in time convince of the falsehood and vanity of such an exception.

Lastly, Here is the Aggravation of it from the perpetuity; It is thus only evil, and that continually; Thus the holy Ghost, which is truth it self represents our Blackmore natures to humble and debase man, as also to justifie God under any effects of his wrath and vengeance that he may bring upon us; How wretched then are the attempts of some Writers, who lay out the utmost of their power and wit, to make this sinne nothing at all, (as Doctor Taylor, and as Papists) or to have very little guilt in it? If you say, This Text speaketh of actual sinnes, of evil imaginations, I grant it, but as flowing from original pollution, it speaketh of bitter fruit, but as flowing from that bitter root within; And the Scripture use to speak of this sinne commonly, as putting it self immediate evil motions; because though original sinne be not peccatum yet it is peccatum actuosum (as hath been said;) It is an acting, and an active sinne, though not actual. Pererius would evade this Text by having it to be an hyperbole, or else to be true only of some particular wicked men, the Gyants in those dayes; As for the hyperbole, which both Papists and Socinians so often flie unto, when the Scripture doth intend to exagerate this sinne, we shall easily in time convince of the falshood and vanity of such an exception.