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

Secondly, It's an impediment in our race, Obnitendo, by a plain opposing and contrary thwarting of any good that the Spirit of God either externally offers, or internally operates. Thus this native sin doth with all violence oppose and thwart whatsoever is spiritual; Therefore you see the Apostle expressing this resistance by military words, that it doth war against him, and sometimes lead him into captivity; Thus even a Paul is like a poor captive or prisoner, carried up and down whether he would not: Now this obnitency and reluctancy of original sin is seen two ways against what is good:

Secondly, It's an impediment in our race, Obnitendo, by a plain opposing and contrary thwarting of any good that the Spirit of God either externally offers, or internally operates. Thus this native sinne doth with all violence oppose and thwart whatsoever is spiritual; Therefore you see the Apostle expressing this resistance by military words, that it doth warre against him, and sometimes lead him into captivity; Thus even a Paul is like a poor captive or prisoner, carried up and down whether he would not: Now this obnitency and reluctancy of original sinne is seen two wayes against what is good:

1. There is a good published and tendered by the preaching of the Gospel. God doth by that proffer unto us everlasting and eternal life; but this original sin stirreth up a man to reject it, and to refuse it; it's no suitable or acceptable offer to our natures, no more than pearls or sweet flowers are to the beastly Swine. Indeed when a people have lived long under the preaching of the Gospel, yet do reject it, and oppose it, loving darkness rather than light, these have a double blindness and hardness upon them; The natural one by original sin, and the habitual contracted one, which they are justly delivered up into by God for the contempt of the light they do enjoy; but I speak here only of the natural blindness, and natural hardness upon our hearts: So that upon the very first offers and tenders of grace, the first Sermon that ever we hear, the first time that the Gospel doth sound in our ears, we have a contrariety to it; and why is it that a man should thus naturally be an enemy to his own peace? Is it not because of this inbred sin working in us?