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

SECT. VI.

Fifthly, It's Natural, Because it's necessarily in every one; we are necessarily thus defiled and stained; And in this respect chiefly, we call it Natural, because it's not voluntary, it's not subject to the exercise of free-will: For although, as was said, the heart of man inclineth to the highest impieties, yet the exercise of some gross impieties are subject to our power in some measure, a man is not in this sense necessarily a drunkard, or an adulterer; but when we speak of this inward filthiness, it's so natural, that it's necessary: Neither the being of it, or the immediate motions of it are subject to our reason and will, but they are in us antecedently to our own consent; and this consideration doth greatly aggravate our guilt, for we are not only habitually and actually, or voluntarily sinful, but naturally and necessarily so. Now as it is the great aggravation of Gods holiness, that he is not only actually holy, but naturally, yet voluntarily: So it must be our great condemnation, that we are not only actually and voluntarily sinful, but even naturally and necessarily, yet this necessity taketh not off from voluntariness, and delight in sin.

FIfthly, It's Natural, Because it's necessarily in every one; we are necessarily thus defiled and stained; And in this respect chiefly, we call it Natural, because it's not voluntary, it's not subject to the exercise of free-will: For although, as was said, the heart of man inclineth to the highest impieties, yet the exercise of some gross impieties are subject to our power in some measure, a man is not in this sense necessarily a drunkard, or an adulterer; but when we speak of this inward filthiness, it's so natural, that it's necessary: Neither the being of it, or the immediate motions of it are subject to our reason and will, but they are in us antecedently to our own consent; and this consideration doth greatly aggravate our guilt, for we are not only habitually and actually, or voluntarily sinfull, but naturally and necessarily so. Now as it is the great aggravation of Gods holiness, that he is not only actually holy, but naturally, yet voluntarily: So it must be our great condemnation, that we are not only actually and voluntarily sinfull, but even naturally and necessarily, yet this necessity taketh not off from voluntariness, and delight in sin.