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

Fourthly, As the perpetual sinful actings of them may humble us, so the universality and multitude of them: They do extend themselves to ens and non ens, to every thing, and to nothing; Insomuch that the multitude of thy imaginations do even overwhelm thee, for this being the difference between the external senses and the imagination, that the outward senses, they are never moved or excited, but by the present objects; The imagination, that is constantly working about absent objects; hence it is that your fancies they are many times roving and wandering about those objects that are many hundred miles distant from thee; as God complained of the people of Israel, That they drew nigh with their lips, but their heart was afar off; They showed much love, but their heart went after their covetousness, Ezek. 33. 31. Thus it is with us continually, when we pray, when we hear, our imaginations are running many miles off; They are like Cain, vagabonds, and have no settled abode; which brings in the next instance of their sinfulness.

FOurthly, As the perpetual sinful actings of them may humble us, so the universallity and multitude of them: They do extend themselves to ens and non ens, to every thing, and to nothing; Insomuch that the multitude of thy imaginations do even overwhelm thee, for this being the difference between the external senses and the imagination, that the outward senses, they are never moved or excited, but by the present objects; The imagination, that is constantly working about absent objects; hence it is that your fancyes they are many times roving and wandring about those objects that are many hundred miles distant from thee; as God complained of the people of Israel, That they drew nigh with their lips, but their heart was afarre off; They shewed much love, but their heart went after their covetousness,