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

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 Ephes. 2. 2. they are said to be without God in the world, Even as the body of a man, when deprived of its sense; falleth prostrate presently upon the ground; so when that original ⟨p. 99⟩righteousness was removed, which was the soul of the soul, presently we fall downwards to the creatures, knowing no better good, nor desiring any better comforts, but what are in them. No marvel then if this make the godly go stooping and bowing down, because it depresseth and leaneth to the creature, leaving God; That as you see the body is a burden to the soul, especially if diseased, which made Plato say, [Greek or Hebrew] was [Greek or Hebrew], the very grave and sepulchre of the soul: Thus original sin is a spiritual burden to it, that there cannot be those ascensions and elevations of the mind to God, as ought to be.

First, Original sinne 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 center 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 sinne a man is habitually averse to God, and converted to the creatures; So that God is not in all his thoughts, yea Ephes. 2. 2. they are said to be without God in the world, Even as the body of a man, when deprived of its sense; falleth prostrate presently upon the ground; so when that original ⟨p. 99⟩righteousness was removed, which was the soul of the soul, presently we fall downwards to the creatures, knowing no better good, nor desiring any better comforts, but what are in them. No marvel then if this make the godly go stooping and bowing down, because it depresseth and leaneth to the creature, leaving God; That as you see the body is a burden to the soul, especially if diseased, which made Plato say, was , the very grave and sepulchre of the soul: Thus original sin is a spiritual burden to it, that there cannot be those ascensions and elevations of the mind to God, as ought to be.