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

Secondly, A Law doth not only teach, but it doth instigate and incline, it presseth, and provoketh to the things commanded by it, Thus the Law of the mind in a godly man, doth greatly instigate and provoke him to what is good; It is like a goad in his side, it is like fire in his bowels, he must do that which is good, else he cannot have any rest within him: You read when David refrained for a while from speaking good, at last he could hold no longer, but ⟨p. 85⟩the fire did break out: So Paul, 2 Cor. 5. The love of Christ constraineth us; Thus the true believer he hath a principle of grace within him, which is like a Law upon him, he cannot do otherwise, he must obey it: Thus on the contrary, Original sin in a natural man, is like a Law within him, it provoketh him, it inflameth him to all evil; Whensoever any holy duty is pressed upon him, this Law of sin stirreth him up against it, makes him rage at it, as the Apostle doth abundantly testify in this Chapter, he tells us, This Law of sin did war and fight against the Law of God, it did lead him captive, it conquered and subdued him against his will: If then a godly man find this Law of sin so powerful, and operative in him; No wonder if men wholly carnal and natural, they find the Law of sin as fully prevailing over them, as the Devils did on the herd of Swine, which they hurried violently into the sea without any resistance. As then the Devil when he possessed some bodies, provoked and moved them to many violent and sudden actions, which they could not gainsay: Thus doth the Law of sin in men naturally, it provoketh, it instigateth, it turneth the soul upside down, it is continually pressing and inclining to evil, which makes the Scripture say, Gen. 6. That the imaginations of the thoughts of mans heart is only evil, and that continually.

Secondly, A Law doth not onely teach, but it doth instigate and incline, it presseth, and provoketh to the things commanded by it, Thus the Law of the mind in a godly man, doth greatly instigate and provoke him to what is good; It is like a goad in his side, it is like fire in his bowels, he must do that which is good, else he cannot have any rest within him: You read when David refrained for a while from speaking good, at last he could hold no longer, but ⟨p. 85⟩