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

Fourthly, Where there is not a true knowledge of this native corruption, there our Humiliation, and Repentance can never be deep enough; for it's not enough to be humbled for our actual sins, unless also we go to the cause and root of all. When a godly man would repent of his lusts, of his unbelief, or any other actual transgression, he stayeth not in the confession of, and bewailing those particular sins, but he goeth to the polluted fountain, to the bitter spring, from whence those bitter streams flow, and commonly this is a difference between an Ahab's Humiliation, and a Davids; Ahab humbleth himself only for his actual impieties, and that because of judgments threatened and impending over him; but David, even when he heareth God had forgiven his iniquity, yet hath great humiliation for his sins; and Psal. 51. thinketh it not enough to bewail his adultery and murder, but to confess, That in iniquity he was conceived; his actual sins carried him to the original. Thus Paul also, Rom. 7, ⟨p. 9⟩when he miserably complaineth of that impotency in him to do good, that he could never do any good as perfectly, fully, purely and cheerfully, as he ought to do, presently he goeth to the cause of all this deordination, the Law of sin within him, that original sin which was like a Law within him, commanding him to think, to desire, to do sinfully, and obeyed it in all, though against his will, insomuch that he saith, He was carnal, and sold under sin. This the Apostle doth complain of, as the heaviest burden of all; So that an unregenerate man may by the light of nature, bewail and complain of his actual impieties, he may cry out, Oh wretched man that I am, for being such a beast, such a devil, so exorbitant and excessive, but whether he can do this for the body of sin within him, as Paul did, that may justly be questioned; And therefore you see then the troubles and workings of conscience in some men to miscarry greatly; They seem to be in pain and travails of soul, but all cometh to nothing: Oh how many in times of danger, and under fear of death, do sadly cry out of such sins they have committed! Oh the promises and resolutions they make, if ever God give them recovery again! But all this passeth away, even as mans life it self, like a vapour, like a tale, that is told:

Fourthly, Where there is not a true knowledge of this native corruption, there our Humiliation, and Repentance can never be deep enough; for it's not enough to be humbled for our actual sinnes, unless also we go to the cause and root of all. When a godly man would repent of his lusts, of his unbelief, or any other actual transgression, he stayeth not in the confession of, and bewailing those particular sins, but he goeth to the polluted fountain, to the bitter spring, from whence those bitter streams flow, and commonly this is a difference between an Ahabs Humiliation, and a Davids; Ahab humbleth himself only for his actual impieties, and that because of judgments threatned and impending over him; but David, even when he heareth God had forgiven his iniquity, yet hath great humiliation for his sinnes; and