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

Fifthly, To original sin there must needs belong eternal wrath, because of the nature of it, and inseparable effects flowing from it. The nature of it is the spiritual death of the soul; by this a man is alienated from all life of grace; and therefore till the grace of God appear, it's true of all by nature, as followeth in the Chapter where this Text is, vers. 12. Without Christ alien from the Commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the Covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. Thus Davenant upon that Text, Dead in sin, Col. 2. 13. saith, All the sons of Adam are accounted dead; first, because they lie in a state of spiritual death, having lost the Image of God: and partly, because they are under the guilt of eternal death, being obnoxious to the wrath of God, for by nature we are the children of wrath. If then original sin put us into a spiritual death, if thereby we be deprived of all spiritual life, How can it be avoided but that eternal damnation must fo••ow thereupon by the desert thereof? And as for the inseparable effects of it, which are to carry us on necessarily to sin in all that we do, to make us utterly impotent and unable for any thing that is good; What can this produce but everlasting misery to our souls?

Fifthly, To original sinne there must needs belong eternal wrath, because of the nature of it, and inseperable effects flowing from it. The nature of it is the spiritual death of the soul; by this a man is alienated from all life of grace; and therefore till the grace of God appear, it's true of all by nature, as followeth in the Chapter where this Text is, vers. 12. Without Christ alient from the Commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the Covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. Thus Davenant upon that Text, Dead in sinne, Col. 2. 13. saith, All the sons of Adam are accounted dead; first, because they lie in a state of spiritual death, having lost the Image of God: and partly, because they are under the guilt of eternal death, being obnoxious to the wrath of God, for by nature we are the children of wram. If then original sinne put us into a spiritual death, if thereby we be deprived of all spiritual life, How can it be avoided but that eternal damnation must fo••ow thereupon by the desert thereof? And as for the inseparable effects of it, which are to carry us on necessarily to sinne in all that we do, to make us utterly impotent and unable for any thing that is good; What can this produce but everlasting misery to our souls?