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

This being explained, whereas we see the Apostle praying for the sanctification of the body as well as the soul, it is plain, That it is unclean and sinful as well as the soul, else it did not need Sanctification. From whence observe,

This being explained, whereas we see the Apostle praying for the sanctification of the body as well as the soul, it is plain, That it is unclean and sinfull as well as the soul, else it did not need Sanctification. From whence observe,

That the body of a man naturally is defiled and sinful; Sanctification extendeth adequately to our pollution: Seeing then it is required of man, that his body be holy, and he is to glorify God in that as well as in his soul, and this cannot be without the sanctification of it, it remaineth that our bodies are not only mortal but sinful; And indeed under the corruptibility of them, we do readily groan and mourn under the diseases, pains and aches of the body, but spiritual life is required to be humbled for the sins of the body.

That the body of a man naturally is defiled and sinfull; Sanctification extendeth adequately to our pollution: Seeing then it is required of man, that his body be holy, and he is to glorifie God in that as well as in his soul, and this cannot be without the sanctification of it, it remaineth that our bodies are not only mortal but sinfull; And indeed under the corruptibility of them, we do readily groan and mourn under the diseases, pains and aches of the body, but spiritual life is required to be humbled for the sins of the body.

Object. And if you say, How can there be sin in the body, seeing that is not reasonable, all sin supposeth reason, now the body being void of that, it should seem that it is no more capable of sin, then brute beasts are?