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

Propos. 3. It is good to take notice, how many ways the soul may become guilty of sin about these thoughts and motions within us. A truth •••deed it is) that no natural man, no civil or formal man doth understand, or can be affected with: Can a blind man that doth not behold the Sun, see the atoms in the Sun-beams? They who are not affected or grieved about great and actual sins, will they find these inward motions to be burden? If they can swallow a Camel, will they not a mote?

Propos. 3. It is good to take notice, how many wayes the soul may become guilty of sinne about these thoughts and motions within us. A truth •••deed it is) that no natural man, no civil or formal man doth understand, or can be affected with: Can a blind man that doth not behold the Sunne, see the atoms in the Sun-beams? They who are not affected or grieved about great and actual sins, will they find these inward motions to be burden? If they can swallow a Camel, will they not a mote?

1. Therefore we come to sin by these motions and thoughts of soul, by the very being of them there. The very having of them there is contrary to the Image of God we were first created in: As in Heaven there is no unclean thing that can enter; so where the Image of God is full and complete, the least vain thought, the least sinful stirring can no more consist with it, then darkness with light: or as at the first creation we could not have found one weed or thistle on the ground, but these came by the curse for sin; so at first in mans soul there would not have appeared the least irregular and inordinate motion of the heart, not one thought would have been out of its place: Adam was Gods book coming immediately from him, wherein no errata could be found; but now in stead of wheat come up cockles. Now what ever we think, we imagine, we move to all, doth become sin unto us. Oh then let the godly soul mourn and humble it self, because such motions are there, as you see Paul doth, Rom. 7