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

The first, of the intellectual and rational part unto God, The mind clearly knowing him, and the will readily submitting unto him.

The second was, A regular Subordination of all the passions and affections unto the mind, so that there did not from the sensible part arise any thing that was unbeseeming ⟨p. 134⟩and contrary to the rational: Hence it was that the Scripture taketh notice of Adam and Eve in their privative Condition, that though naked, yet they were not ashamed; There being a full purity and simplicity in their natures, whereby nothing could arise to disturb all those superior operations. At sin expresseth it well; Even (saith he) as Paradise the place wherein Adam was created, had neither heat or cold, but an excellent temperament excluding the hurtful excess of either; so also the soul of Adam was without any excessive passion, or inordinate motion, but all things did sweetly and amicably concur in obedience to the mind.

The second was, A regular Subordination of all the passions and affections unto the mind, so that there did not from the sensible part arise any thing that was unbeseeming ⟨p. 134⟩and contrary to the rational: Hence it was that the Scripture taketh notice of Adam and Eve in their privitive Condition, that though naked, yet they were not ashamed; There being a full purity and simplicity in their natures, whereby nothing could arise to disturb all those superiour operations. At sin expresseth it well; Even (saith he) as Paradise the place wherein Adam was created, had neither heat or cold, but an excellent temperament excluding the hurtfull excess of either; so also the soul of Adam was without any excessive passion, or inordinate motion, but all things did sweetly and amicably concur in obedience to the mind.