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

Fourthly, The Pelagian, many Papists, and the late Socinian Writers, all these attribute it to mans Creation and constitution at first, at least in part: for they tell us of a state of pure naturals, that man hath, whereby the appetite doth rebel against the mind, for man consisting of a soul and a body; hereby (say they) do necessarily arise contrary inclinations; The soul inclineth one way, and the body another way; and this conflict they are not afraid to say was in Adam himself, and therefore God gave him grace as a supernatural and superadded ornament, yea and as a remedy to keep the inferior appetite in its order: now man being fallen, he hath lost those superadditionals, but continueth in his mere naturals, and these being weak and imperfect are easily carried out to sin, wanting the grace of God to elevate them. This is the mystery of their iniquity. This is ⟨p. 452⟩the fountain of all their poisonous impieties, and therefore (God assisting) is to be confuted most properly, when we come to speak of that immediate effect of original sin, which is to make a conflict and rebellion in man between the mind and sensitive appetite in natural men, and between the flesh and spirit in regenerate men.

Fourthly, The Pelagian, many Papists, and the late Socinian Writers, all these attribute it to mans Creation and constitution at first, at least in part: for they tell us of a state of pure naturals, that man hath, whereby the appetite doth rebell against the mind, for man confisting of a soul and a body; hereby (say they) do necessarily arise contrary inclinations; The soul enclineth one way, and the body another way; and this conflict they are not afraid to say was in Adam himself, and therefore God gave him grace as a supernatural and superadded ornament, yea and as a remedy to keep the inferior appetite in its order: now man being fallen, he hath lost those superadditionals, but continueth in his meer naturals, and these being weak and imperfect are easily carried out to sinne, wanting the grace of God to elevate them. This is the mystery of their iniquity. This is ⟨p. 452⟩the fountain of all their poisonous impieties, and therefore (God assisting) is to be confuted most properly, when we come to speak of that immediate effect of original sinne, which is to make a conflict and rebellion in man between the mind and sensitive appetite in natural men, and between the flesh and spirit in regenerate men.