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

Lastly, Original sin is equal in all, in respect of the merit and desert; it deserveth death, it deserveth hell; There is none cometh into the world thus polluted, but he is obnoxious to death, and an heir of Gods wrath; For although some are freed from hell, yea and one or two have been preserved from death, yet is wholly by the grace of God; The desert of original sin is equal in all.

Lastly, Original sinne is equal in all, in respect of the merit and desert; it deserveth death, it deserveth hell; There is none cometh into the world thus polluted, but he is obnoxious to death, and an heir of Gods wrath; For although some are freed from hell, yea and one or two have been preserved from death, yet is wholly by the grace of God; The desert of original sin is equal in all.

But then you will say, How cometh it about that some are more viciously given then others, some more propense to one sin then another?

But then you will say, How cometh it about that some are more viciously given then others, some more propense to one sinne then another?

I answer, 1. From the different complexions and constitutions of the body, with their different temptations and external occasions of sin as they meet with; Though the remote power be equal in all, yet the immediate and proxim disposition is the bodies complexion, and other concurring circumstances; For original righteousness being removed, then a man is carried out to sin violently, according as his particular torrent may drive him; Even as if the pillars or supporters of an house should fall to the ground, every piece of wood would fall to the ground more heavily or lightly, as the weight is, or as you heard Aquinas his similitude, when the mixed body is dissolved every element hath his proper motion, the air ascends upward, the earth downwards; and this is the cause of the divers sins in the world, and some mens particular inclinations to one sin more than another. And then