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

Fourthly, Original sin is called the Body of sin, Because it is a mass of sin, a lump of all evil: It is not one sin, but all sin seminally: And this seemeth to be the most formal and express reason, why the Apostle giveth it this name, calling it a Body, and attributing members to it; for as a body is not one member, or one part, but the whole compounded of all; Thus is original sin, it is not the defilement, or pollution in one part of the soul, but it diffuseth it self through all. It is a body of sin, and herein it doth exceed all actual transgressions, and for this reason, we ought the more to grieve and mourn under it; The body is heavier than one part, why are actual sins a load upon thee, but this which is the cause of all, and comprehends all, thou art never affected with? O pray more ⟨p. 109⟩for the Spirit of conviction by the Word! Look oftener into the pure glass of the Law! Compare thy universal deformity with that exact purity! It is for want of this the pharisaical and the natural man is so self-confident, trusteth so much in his own heart, doth so easily persuade himself of Gods love, whereas if we come to a Christian like Paul, complaining of this Law of sin within him, finding it captivating and haling of him whither he would not, then we have much a do to comfort such an one, all our work is to make him have any hope in Christ, he thinketh none are so bad as he, that the very devils have not worse in them, than he feeleth in himself; and all this is, because original sin is such a loathsome dunghill in his breast, that as those who have putrefied arms, or other parts of their body, they cannot endure themselves, they would fly from themselves: Thus it is with them, because of this original pollution.

Fourthly, Original sinne is called the Body of sinne, Because it is a mass of sin, a lump of all evil: It is not one sinne, but all sinne seminally: And this seemeth to be the most formal and express reason, why the Apostle giveth it this name, calling it a Body, and attributing members to it; for as a body is not one member, or one part, but the whole compounded of all; Thus is original sinne, it is not the defilement, or pollution in one part of the soul, but it diffuseth it self through all. It is a body of sinne, and herein it doth exceed all actual transgressions, and for this reason, we ought the more to grieve and mourn under it; The body is heavier than one part, why are actual sins a load upon thee, but this which is the cause of all, and comprehends all, thou art never affected with? O pray more