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

Fourthly, The body by original sin, is made a tempter, and a seducer, it doth administer daily matter and occasion to sin; As the Devil is a tempter without, so the body is the tempter within; we are incited and drawn away to many bodily sins from the temptations thereof, hence we read in the Scripture that the word flesh is so often put for the sinful part of a man, and spirit for the regenerate part, and why is it called flesh, but because it is so intimately adhering to the body, and by the body so much iniquity and sinfulness is expressed: Thus sin is called our flesh, as if it were no longer a quality polluting of us, but our very bones and corporeal substance; There are several bodily sins which are bred (as it were) in this noisome puddle of the body, as drunkenness, this is a bodily sin, and where this vice is accustomed unto, how greatly doth the body crave and importune for the accomplishing of it? this maketh repentance of it, and a through reformation so difficult, because it is now soaked (as it were) in the body; that as you see it is with the food we eat, while in the mouth or stomach it is with some ease exonerated, but when digested and by nourishment turned into the very parts of the body, then it cannot be separated: Thus when sins come to be incorporated into thee, when thy body is habituated to any vice, it requireth much prayer and agony, much humiliation and supplication, ere such a lust can be dispossessed. Oh then bewail thy body, that is thus become an enemy to the soul, that is like a furnace sending forth continual sparks of fire: That as the tree by the moisture and softness thereof doth cause worms to breed in it which do at last destroy it. Thus ⟨p. 379⟩out of thy body arise such lusts that will at last be thy eternal perdition: As drunkenness so uncleanness, this is also a lust of the body, this sin ariseth from it, and although that be very true which the Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 6. 18. That fornication and such uncleanness they are against the body, because the body is to be kept holy and pure it being the temple of the Holy Ghost: where a man is sanctified, yet take it as corrupted and polluted, so these lusts are very suitable and consonant to it; who can think then, that the body is such as at first Creation, such a ready instrument to much bodily wickedness, yea a tempter and a seducer?

FOurthly, The body by original sinne, is made a tempter, and a seducer, it doth administer daily matter and occasion to sinne; As the Devil is a tempter without, so the body is the tempter within; we are incited and drawne away to many bodily sinnes from the temptations thereof, hence we read in the Scripture that the word flesh is so often put for the sinful part of a man, and spirit for the regenerate part, and why is it called flesh, but because it is so intimately adhering to the body, and by the body so much iniquity and sinfulness is expressed: Thus sinne is called our flesh, as if it were no longer a quality polluting of us, but our very bones and corporeal substance; There are several bodily sinnes which are bred (as it were) in this noisome pudddle of the body, as drunkenness, this is a bodily sinne, and where this vice is accustomed unto, how greatly doth the body crave and importune for the accomplishing of it? this maketh repentance of it, and a through reformation so difficult, because it is now soaked (as it were) in the body; that as you see it is with the food we eat, while in the mouth or stomack it is with some ease exonerated, but when digested and by nourishment turned into the very parts of the body, then it cannot be separated: Thus when sinnes come to be incorporated into thee, when thy body is habituated to any vice, it requireth much prayer and agony, much humiliation and supplication, ere such a lust can be disposessed. Oh then bewail thy body, that is thus become an enemy to the soul, that is like a furnace sending forth continual sparks of fire: That as the tree by the moisture and softness thereof doth cause wormes to breed in it which do at last destroy it. Thus