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

First, It is evident in that diligent and thoughtful way of car we have about the feeding and clothing of it. Doth not our Saviour even to his very Disciples, prohibit this perplexing care, Matth. 6. 25. Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat, nor for your body what ye shall put on; but how faulty are we here, comparatively to our souls? we that have so many thoughts to provide for the body, how few have we about the soul? Is not the body well fed, when the soul is starved? Is not the body well clothed, when the soul is naked? How justly may thy soul cry out murder, murder, for thou art destroying and damning that every day? Will not thy soul witness against thee at the day of judgement, the body was taken care for, the body was looked to, but I was neglected? Will it not cry out in hell, Oh if I had been as diligently attended unto, as the body, I had not been roaring in these eternal torments.

First, It is evident in that diligent and thoughtfull way of car we have about the feeding and cloathing of it. Doth not our Saviour even to his very Disciples, prohibit this perplexing care, Matth. 6. 25. Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat, nor for your body what ye shall put on; but how faulty are we here, comparatively to our souls? we that have so many thoughts to provide for the body, how few have we about the soul? Is not the body well fed, when the soul is starved? Is not the body well cloathed, when the soul is naked? How justly may thy soul cry out murder, murder, for thou art destroying and damning that every day? Will not thy soul witness against thee at the day of judgement, the body was taken care for, the body was looked to, but I was neglected? Will it not cry out in hell, Oh if I had been as diligently attended unto, as the body, I had not been roaring in these eternal torments.

The second particular, wherein the body doth objectively and occasionally tempt the soul to sin, is about the adorning and trimming of it, not only the care to provide for it, but the curiosity to adorn it doth provoke the soul to much sinni. And whereas our very garments should put us in constant mind of our original pollution (for there was no shame upon nakedness till that first transgression) and thereby greatly humble us; we now grow proud and vain from the very effect of the first disobedience: Every morning we put on our garments, we should remember our original sin; The body before sin was not exposed to any danger by cold and other damages, neither was the nakedness thereof any cause of blushing, but all this and more also is the fruit of the first sin, and if so, how inexcusable is it, to be curious and diligent in trimming up, and adorning our bodies by those very garments, the thoughts whereof should greatly debase us, but this is not all; The great attendance to the glory of the body doth wholly take off from the care of the soul; How happy were it, if persons did take as much pains to have their souls clothed with the robes of righteousness, to have them washed and cleansed from all filth, as they do about their bodies, one spot, one wrinkle in the garment is presently spied out, when the soul at the same time, though full of loathsomeness, is altogether