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

It doth objectively occasion much sin to the Soul.

It doth objectively occasion much sinne to the Soul.

Fifthly, The body is not only a tempter thus to sin, and so as Saul purposed about Michal, is become a snare to us, a worse evil then is in that imprecation, Let their table become a snare to them, for our body, which is so dear and so intimate, that is also become a snare, But then objectively it doth occasion much sin to the soul. In the former particular our bodies had some kind of efficiency and working in those sins, but here it is passive (as it were) an object that doth allure and draw out the soul inordinately to it, so that we mind the body, look to the body, provide for the body more than the soul; so that whereas the soul is far more excellent and worthy than the body; so that our thoughts and studies should be infinitely more zealous to save that then the body, yet till grace doth sanctify and life us up to the enjoyment of God, who doth not look after his body more than his soul, which yet is, as if (saith Chrysostom) a man should look to his house to see that be repaired, and that be in good order, but neglect his own self: The soul that is properly a man, the body is but his house, and a vile one also, is an house of clay; it is but a garment to the soul, and a ragged tottered one. Now it is good to take notice in what particulars our bodies are thus objectively a cause of sin to us. And

FIfthly, The body is not only a tempter thus to sinne, and so as Saul purposed about Michal, is become a snare to us, a worse evil then is in that imprecation, Let their table become a snare to them, for our body, which is so dear and so intimate, that is also become a snare, But then objectively it doth occasion much sinne to the soul. In the former particular our bodies had some kind of efficiency and working in those sinnes, but here it is passive (as it were) an object that doth allure and draw out the soul inordinately to it, so that we mind the body, look to the body, provide for the body more than the soul; so that whereas the soul is farre more excellent and worthy than the body; so that our thoughts and studies should be infinitely more zealous to save that then the body, yet till grace doth sanctifie and life us up to the enjoyment of God, who doth not look after his body more than his soul, which yet is, as if (saith Chrysostom) a man should look to his house to see that be repaired, and that be in good order, but neglect his own self: The soul that is properly a man, the body is but his house, and a vile one also, is an house of clay; it is but a garment to the soul, and a ragged tottered one. Now it is good to take notice in what particulars our bodies are thus objectively a cause of sinne to us. And