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

This is the Delilah that doth so often plunge us into soul sins, there was no root of bitterness in mans body at first, but as it was with the ground, when cursed for mans sin, then it did naturally and of it self bring forth weeds and thorns, so doth the body thus defiled, it is now the continual nourisher, and fomenter of vice, we damn our souls to please our bodies, we are become slaves to our bodily pleasures and delights, though we know they are to the eternal perdition both of soul and body at last; nourish it we must, provide for it we must, yet we cannot nourish that, but sin also is thereby strengthened; Hence you have that holy Apostle himself much afraid of his body, that it may not rise up in rebellion against the work of grace, 1 Cor. 9. 27. he useth two emphatical words to this purpose [Greek or Hebrew], I keep under my body, an allusion to those who did fight for masteries by way of exercise; so that when one did beat the other black and blue about the face ([Greek or Hebrew]) is the countenance, and ([Greek or Hebrew]) are those marks upon the face; Hence Hysichius rendereth [Greek or Hebrew], an humiliation of the body) this was [Greek or Hebrew] (not to speak of those who read it [Greek or Hebrew].) Corinth was well acquainted with these exercises of the body, and although there were five kinds of them, yet the Apostle instanceth in two only (viz.) of racers and of wrestlers, as being most suitable to his purpose. Now by this Metaphor the Apostle would teach us, what an enemy and adversary the body is to the soul, what snares it layeth for us, what great danger may arise to us from it alone; He doth not name his fighting with the world and the Devil, though these be potent enemies, but the body only, because these adversaries cannot do us any hurt, till this domestical enemy and home-adversary do betray us; and as it signifieth, that the body is an enemy, so it declareth also with what austerity and mortification we are to observe our bodies, for they are like our beasts, if we take not their provender from them, they will quickly grow too unruly, as is implied in the next word. It is true, the Apostle doth not say, I kill my body, nor I mutilate my body, for that had been unlawful;

This is the Dalilah that doth so often plunge us into soul sinnes, there was no root of bitterness in mans body at first, but as it was with the ground, when cursed for mans sinne, then it did naturally and of it self bring forth weeds and thorns, so doth the body thus defiled, it is now the continual nourisher, and fomenter of vice, we damn our souls to please our bodies, we are become slaves to our bodily pleasures and delights, though we know they are to the eternal perdition both of soul and body at last; nourish it we must, provide for it we must, yet we cannot nourish that, but sinne also is thereby strengthned; Hence you have that holy Apostle himself much afraid of his body, that it may not rise up in rebellion against the work of grace,