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

SECT. III.

How many ways Original Sin is a Burden, and an Hinderance unto us.

How many wayes Original Sinne is a Burden, and an Hinderance unto us.

Now because this property is chiefly aimed at by the Apostle in this expression, viz. that it is a burden, an hinderance, a stop to us, while we are in our race: Let us consider, How many ways original sin is a burden and hinderance, so that if this were removed, there would be no complaints of the difficulty that we find to what is good, yea the more perfect and spiritual any duty is, the more pleasing and acceptable it would be to an heart eased of this burden. And

NOw because this property is chiefly aimed at by the Apostle in this expression, viz. that it is a burden, an hinderance, a stop to us, while we are in our race: Let us consider, How many wayes original sinne is a burden and hinderance, so that if this were removed, there would be no complaints of the difficulty that we find to what is good, yea the more perfect and spiritual any duty is, the more pleasing and acceptable it would be to an heart eased of this burden. And

First, Original sin is a burden incurvando, By bowing down and pressing to the soul to these creatures here below; So that now by nature the creature with the comforts thereof, is the centre of a mans heart, is the ultimate object his soul is placed upon. God indeed made man after his own image and then his heart, his affections, they did all ascend upwards to God, then he could not satiate, or fully delight himself in any thing but God, but through this original sin a man is habitually averse to God, and converted to the creatures; So that God is not in all his thoughts, yea