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

Neither secondly must you understand Paul speaking of gross and foul sins, as if when he said, The evil he would not, that he doth, were to be understood of scandalous and wicked enormities; No, but it is to be interpreted of those motions ⟨p. 88⟩to sin, and constant infirmities, which cleave to the most holy. Let not therefore any profane person, that customarily walloweth in his impieties, excuse himself with this, It is true, I am such a beast, I do such soul things sometimes, but I may say with Paul, The things that I allow not, yea that I hate, those I do. This is to turn honey into poison; This is to make the Scripture an incentive to thy impiety; No, Paul, and such as thou art, differ as much as the Sun and a dunghill; Paul did not mean, the drunkenness, the uncleanness that he would not do, that he did, but he meaneth such corruptions and infirmities that immediately flow from the polluted nature within us, from which we are never throughly cleansed in this life.

Neither secondly must you understand Paul speaking of gross and foul sins, as if when he said, The evil he would not, that he doth, were to be understood of scandalous and wicked enormities; No, but it is to be interpreted of those motions ⟨p. 88⟩to sinne, and constant infirmities, which cleave to the most holy. Let not therefore any prophane person, that customarily walloweth in his impieties, excuse himself with this, It is true, I am such a beast, I do such soul things sometimes, but I may say with Paul, The things that I allow not, yea that I hate, those I do. This is to turn honey into poyson; This is to make the Scripture an incentive to thy impiety; No, Paul, and such as thou art, differ as much as the Sunne and a dunghill; Paul did not mean, the drunkenness, the uncleanness that he would not do, that he did, but he meaneth such corruptions and infirmities that immediately flow from the polluted nature within us, from which we are never throughly cleansed in this life.

Thirdly, Neither when the Apostle saith, The good he would, that he doth not, and the evil he would not, that he doth: Is thus to be so understood, as if it were perpetual, and in every particular act, as if sin had always the better, and grace the worse, as if in no action he did, grace did conquer sin; for in other places, the godly are said to have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof: As also, That sin shall not have dominion over them; but sometimes in some temptations they are captivated against their wills.