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

Secondly, From hence it is, That it hath as it were an universal guilt, it makes the understanding guilty, the will guilty, the affections guilty, even guilt all over; Every actual sin hath its proper formal guilt; the guilt of theft is one thing, the guilt of adultery is another thing, but now original sin is as it were an universal guilt: As God is that bonum, in quo omnia bona, so in some sense original sin is that malum, in quo omnia mala, not only effectively, of which in the next place, but because of the general guilt accompanying; For as it hath a general maculam, so it must have suitably a general reatum. This is greatly to be laid to heart; for as original righteousness was not the perfection and glory of one faculty only, but the universal rectitude and general harmony of the whole man; Thus original sin is not any particular guilt of one kind of sin, but it's the ataxy, the dissolution of that curious workmanship which God at first made in man, and so is a general guilt; and therefore the more are we to bewail this condition, saying, Lord, It is not one or many sins, it is not this, or that peculiar guilt I am to humble my self for, but I am all over guilty, as the Land of Israel is said to be, Isa. 1. 6. From the sole of the foot to the head, there is no soundness, nothing but wounds and putrefying sores. Thus are we to judge of our selves in respect of this overspreading contagion.

Secondly, From hence it is, That it hath as it were an universal guilt, it makes the understanding guilty, the will guilty, the affections guilty, even guilt all over; Every actual sinne hath its proper formal guilt; the guilt of theft is one thing, the guilt of adultery is another thing, but now original sinne is as it were an universal guilt: As God is that bonum, in quo omnia bona, so in some sense original sinne is that malum, in quo omnia mala, not onely effectively, of which in the next place, but because of the general guilt accompanying; For as it hath a general maculam, so it must have suitably a general reatum. This is greatly to be laid to heart; for as original righteousness was not the perfection and glory of one faculty only, but the universal rectitude and general harmony of the whole man; Thus original sinne is not any particular guilt of one kind of sinne, but it's the ataxy, the dissolution of that curious workmanship which God at first made in man, and so is a general guilt; and therefore the more are we to bewail this condition, saying, Lord, It is not one or many sins, it is not this, or that peculiar guilt I am to humble my self for, but I am all over guilty, as the Land of Israel is said to be,