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

SECT. X.

Reasons why we must be humbled for Original Sin.

Reasons why we must be humbled for Original Sinne.

First, Because original sin is in some sense all sin; It is the universal contagion of all the parts of the soul; it hath Maculam universalem, all actual sins they have only their particular spot or stain, and do more immediately pollute that power or faculty of the soul, it is immediately subjected in, as blindness of mind doth properly infect the understanding, not the will or affections: so contumacy in the will, doth not but by consent or sympathy, as it were, infect the mind, but original sin doth pollute all over, it's like a Gangrene over the whole body, whereas actual sins are like so many several sores: Thus original sin is universal subjectively, there being no part of a man, no not his mind, or his conscience, but it is all over defiled, whereas no actual sin hath such a general defilement with it: Oh then what cause is here, why our hearts should bitterly mourn and even roar out, for this sin makes thy soul all over like a Blackmoor! Thou mayest behold thy self in the glass of Gods word, and not see one fair spot; it is a leprosy upon the whole soul, so that it leaveth nothing good in thee. It's true, the substance and faculties of thy soul are left still, yet they are so corrupted and vitiated, that in a moral consideration there is nothing whole or sound in them.

FIrst, Because original sinne is in some sense all sinne; It is the universal contagion of all the parts of the soul; it hath Maculam universalem, all actual sins they have only their particular spot or stain, and do more immediately pollute that power or faculty of the soul, it is immediately subjected in, as blindness of mind doth properly infect the understanding, not the will or affections: so contumacy in the will, doth not but by consent or sympathy, as it were, infect the mind, but original sinne doth pollute all over, it's like a Gangrene over the whole body, whereas actual sinnes are like so many several sores: Thus original sinne is universal subjectively, there being no part of a man, no not his mind, or his conscience, but it is all over defiled, whereas no actual sinne hath such a general defilement with it: Oh then what cause is here, why our hearts should bitterly mourn and even roar out, for this sinne makes thy soul all over like a Blackmoor! Thou mayest behold thy self in the glass of Gods word, and not see one fair spot; it is a leprosie upon the whole soul, so that it leaveth nothing good in thee. It's true, the substance and faculties of thy soul are left still, yet they are so corrupted and vitiated, that in a moral consideration there is nothing whole or sound in them.