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

2. A second Argument is, In that this person is said to hate evil, not to will what is evil, not to know or approve of it, and then he is said to will that which is good. Now this is the Description of godliness, to love good, and to hate evil. It is true, that in convinced men, who yet retain their lusts, as also in legal men, they would not do the evil that they do, but yet they cannot be said to hate it: No they love their lusts; therefore when any fear doth abate, they presently fall unto those sins again, but this man doth hate sin; So that ⟨p. 491⟩in this property two things discover a regenerate person, 1. That not only his conscience and his judgement is against sin, but his will, his heart and affections also, whereas in all unregenerate men, their judgements, and their consciences being enlightened and terrified, maketh them afraid to commit sin; but their will, then affections […] not against it. And then secondly, The Apostle speaketh generally of evil and good, he doth not say, I do this evil, I would not, or I do not this good that I would, but evil and good indefinitely, and this is only proper to the regenerate, he only hateth all evil, be only loveth all good, whereas the unregenerate person doth hate only some evil, and it is some good only that he would do, though if a man truly hate any sin, he hateth all sin, because odium is circa genus.

2. A second Argument is, In that this person is said to hate evil, not to will what is evil, not to know or approve of it, and then he is said to will that which is good. Now this is the Description of godliness, to love good, and to hate evil. It is true, that in convinced men, who yet retain their lusts, as also in legal men, they would not do the evil that they do, but yet they cannot be said to hate it: No they love their lusts; therefore when any fear doth abate, they presently fall unto those sinnes again, but this man doth hate sinne; So that ⟨p. 491⟩in this property two things discover a regenerate person, 1. That not only his conscience and his judgement is against sinne, but his will, his heart and affections also, whereas in all unregenerate men, their judgements, and their consciences being enlightned and terrified, maketh them afraid to commit sinne; but their will, then affections 〈…〉 not against it. And then secondly, The Apostle speaketh generally of evil and good, he doth not say, I do this evil, I would not, or I do not this good that I would, but evil and good indefinitely, and this is only proper to the regenerate, he only hateth all evil, be only loveth all good, whereas the unregenerate person doth hate only some evil, and it is some good only that he would do, though if a man truly hate any sinne, he hateth all sin, because odium is circa genus.