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

But let us in the next place examine, What causes of this universal propensity in mankind, to sin, are given by the late Heterodox Writer; for the weight of this Objection presseth him, and therefore he doth industriously set himself to answer it. (Unum Necessar. Chap. 6. Sect. 4. It is certain (saith he) that there are many common principles, from which sin deriveth it self into the manners of all men.

But let us in the next place examine, What causes ef this universall propensity in mankind, to sinne, are given by the late Heterodox Writer; for the weight of this Objection presseth him, and therefore he doth industriously set himself to answer it. (Vnum Necessar. Chap. 6. Sect. 4. It is certain (saith he) that there are many common principles, from which sinne deriveth it self into the manners of all men.

The first mentioned is, That at first God made no promises of heaven, he had propounded not glorious rewards, to be as an Argument to support the superior faculty against the inferior, because there was no such thing in that period of the world: therefore almost all flesh had corrupted themselves: for want of this Adam fell, and all the world followed his example, and most upon this account; till it pleased God, after he had tried the world with temporal promises, and found them also insufficient to finish the work of his graciousness, and to cause us to be born anew by the revelations and promises of Jesus Christ. Thus he; but I had almost said, Oh monstrum horrendum, cui lumen ademptum!

The first mentioned is, That at first God made no promises of heaven, he had propounded not glorious rewards, to be as an Argument to support the superiour faculty against the inferiour, because there was no such thing in that period of the world: therefore almost all flesh had corrupted themselves: for want of this Adam fell, and all the world followed his example, and most upon this account; till it pleased God, after he had tryed the world with temporal promises, and found them also insufficient to finish the work of his graciousness, and to cause us to be born anew by the revelations and promises of Jesus Christ. Thus he; but I had almost said, Oh monstrum horrendum, cui lumen ademptum!