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

In the next place he is described, by the immediate effect from this cursed cause being thus abominable and filthy, what doth necessarily flow from hence? even to drink iniquity like water. This expression showeth the vehement inclination in man to sin, and that with delight; as a man who is greatly thirsty doth earnestly desire to drink, that the heat within may be refrigerated; Of this expression more in the Doctrine; This is enough to show, how it is with man relatively to sin, even as with a feverish, or hydropical person that is continually calling for some drink to cool the heat within.

In the next place he is described, by the immediate effect from this cursed cause being thus abominable and filthy, what doth necessarily flow from hence? even to drink iniquity like water. This expression sheweth the vehement inclination in man to sinne, and that with delight; as a man who is greatly thirsty doth earnestly desire to drink, that the heat within may be refrigerated; Of this expression more in the Doctrine; This is enough to shew, how it is with man relatively to sinne, even as with a feavourish, or hydropical person that is continually calling for some drink to cool the heat within.

Thus this Text showeth us, what is one immediate and inseparable effect of mans nature through original corruption, that it doth propend and incline ⟨p. 440⟩with all greediness to evil, and only evil continually; Yet although this be so pregnant and clear a place, Socinians have laboured to obscure it. And

Thus this Text sheweth us, what is one immediate and inseperable effect of mans nature through original corruption, that it doth propend and incline ⟨p. 440⟩with all greediness to evil, and only evil continually; Yet although this be so pregnant and clear a place, Socinians have laboured to obscure it. And