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

Fourthly, This original lust is often stirred up to entice us by the sensitive appetite, by the passions and affections that are in us. This we told you some did limit lust to in the Text, but very unsoundly, yet it cannot be denied, but because the affectionate part of a man is so prevalent and operative, that very often sin is committed here, even without the consent of the will. These affections do suddenly transport us, and we can no more command them to be quiet, then we are able to compose the waves of the Sea. Now though we would withstand and gain-say them, yet they are our sins for all that, as we see Paul sadly complaining herein, Rom. 7. Austin delighteth (De Trinit. lib. 13.) to express our manner of sinning by allusion to the first sin, When any object doth present it self, to allure and affect us, then the Serpent (saith he) showeth us the forbidden fruit: When the sensitive appetite of a man is drawn out to consent unto it, then Eve doth eat of this forbidden fruit; when the rational part of the soul is enticed likewise to consent to this sin, then Eve giveth of this fruit to Adam, and he eateth. Thus Reason is like Adam, Eve like the sensitive part; and as Eve, when she did eat the forbidden fruit alone, did thereby grow mortal, and would have died, though Adam had not consented to eat: Thus the affectionate part of a man carrying us away to sin, though the superior part of the soul will not agree thereunto, yet this maketh us to be in a state of damnation. This maketh the action to be damnable.

Fourthly, This original lust is often stirred up to entice us by the sensitive appetite, by the passions and affections that are in us. This we told you some did limit lust to in the Text, but very unsoundly, yet it cannot be denied, but because the affectionate part of a man is so prevalent and operative, that very often sinne is committed here, even without the consent of the will. These affections doe suddenly transport us, and we can no more command them to be quiet, then we are able to compose the waves of the Sea. Now though we would withstand and gain-say them, yet they are our sinnes for all that, as we see Paul sadly complaining herein, Rom. 7. Austin delighteth (De Trinit. lib. 13.) to expresse our manner of sinning by allusion to the first sinne, When any object doth present it self, to allure and affect us, then the Serpent (saith he) sheweth us the forbidden fruit: When the sensitive appetite of a man is drawn out to consent unto it, then Eve doth eat of this forbidden fruit; when the rational part of the soul is enticed likewise to consent to this sinne, then Eve giveth of this fruit to Adam, and he eateth. Thus Reason is like Adam, Eve like the sensitive part; and as Eve, when she did eat the forbidden fruit alone, did thereby grow mortal, and would have died, though Adam had not consented to eat: Thus the affectionate part of a man carrying us away to sinne, though the superiour part of the soul will not agree thereunto, yet this maketh us to be in a state of damnation. This maketh the action to be damnable.