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

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It doth positively affect and defile the Soul.

Secondly, The bodies sinfulness doth not only appear thus privatively, in being not subservient and helpful to the soul, But it doth also positively affect and defile the soul; not by way of any physical contact, for so a body cannot work upon a spirit, but by way of sympathy; for seeing the soul and body are two constituent part essentially of man, and the soul doth inform the body by an immediate union, hence it is that there is a mutual fellowship one with another, there is a mutual and reciprocal acting (as it were) upon one another; the soul greatly affected doth make a great change upon the body, and the body greatly distempered doth also make a wonderful change upon the mind, and if thereby man fall into madness and distractions, why not also into sin and pollutions of the mind: Thus the corrupt soul maketh the body more vile and the corrupt body maketh the soul more sinful, and so they do advance sin in a mutual circle of causality; Even as vapours cause clouds, and clouds again dissolving do make vapours; Thy sinful soul makes thy body more wicked, and thy sinful body heightens the impiety of thy soul.

SEcondly, The bodies sinfulness doth not only appear thus privatively, in being not subservient and helpfull to the soul, But it doth also positively affect and defile the soul; not by way of any phisical contact, for so a body cannot work upon a spirit, but by way of sympathy; for seeing the soul and body are two constituent part essentially of man, and the soul doth inform the body by an immediate union, hence it is that there is a mutual fellowship one with another, there is a mutual and reciprocal acting (as it were) upon one another; the soul greatly affected doth make a great change upon the body, and the body greatly distempered doth also make a wonderfull change upon the mind, and if thereby man fall into madness and distractions, why not also into sinne and pollutions of the mind: Thus the corrupt soul maketh the body more vile and the corrupt body maketh the soul more sinful, and so they do advance sinne in a mutual circle of causality; Even as vapours cause clouds, and clouds again dislolving do make vapours; Thy sinful soul makes thy body more wicked, and thy sinful body heightens the impiety of thy soul.