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

In the second place, It's a very necessary thing in all men, to be often meditating upon these two states and conditions of man, his created state, and his fallen estate, his primitive condition, and his present condition. To compare the light men, with his darkness now, his holiness then with his impurity now, his immortality then ⟨p. 123⟩with his mortality now, his Communion with God then, and his estrangement, or contrariety now, for hereby his heart will be the more deeply humbled under his present miserable condition; Those that make them both alike, or assign a very little difference, they neither duly consider what a glorious thing Gods Image was, we were created in, nor how deep and universal our pollution is: Oh how dishonourable and dblasphemous is it, to think we come out of Gods hands as we are now, that at the first we had inclinations to sin, that there was a rebellion in us to what is good! What is this but to say, God made us at first the children of his wrath? Oh pray that the scales may fall from thy eyes, that thou beest not delivered up to this dangerous error, which is the broad way to perdition.

In the second place, It's a very necessary thing in all men, to be often meditating upon these two states and conditions of man, his created state, and his fallen estate, his primitive condition, and his present condition. To compare the light men, with his darknesse now, his holinesse then with his impurity now, his immortality then ⟨p. 123⟩with his mortality now, his Communion with God then, and his estrangement, or contrariety now, for hereby his heart will be the more deeply humbled under his present miserable condition; Those that make them both alike, or assign a very little difference, they neither duly consider what a glorious thing Gods Image was, we were created in, nor how deep and universal our pollution is: Oh how dishonourable and dblasphemous is it, to think we come out of Gods hands as we are now, that at the first we had inclinations to sinne, that there was a rebellion in us to what is good! What is this but to say, God made us at first the children of his wrath? Oh pray that the scales may fall from thy eyes, that thou beest not delivered up to this dangerous errour, which is the broad way to perdition.