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

1. It is a spiritual loss, principally and chiefly; The loss of Gods favour, of all holiness, is wholly spiritual, and did tend to make a man spiritually happy; So that if you should compare all the temporal losses that ever have been in the world, with this first and spiritual one, it would be but as the mole-hill to an high mountain: If then our eyes were opened, if we were able rightly to judge or losses, for this we should mourn more than for any evil that ever befell us or others; […] messengers that came with such sad tidings one upon another, is nothing to this message that we bring thee, But who will believe this report?

1. It is a spiritual losse, principally and chiefly; The loss of Gods favour, of all holiness, is wholly spiritual, and did tend to make a man spiritually happy; So that if you should compare all the temporal losses that ever have been in the world, with this first and spiritual one, it would be but as the mole-hill to an high mountain: If then our eyes were opened, if we were able rightly to judge or losses, for this we should mourn more than for any evil that ever befell us or others; 〈…〉 messengers that came with such sad tidings one upon another, is nothing to this message that we bring thee, But who will believe this report?

2. As it is a spiritual loss, so it is an universal loss. The whole world is in a lost state, by losing this Image of God; Every creature hath lost in this universal loss; The earth hath lost its fruitfulness, yea the whole Creation groaneth, and is in bondage, subject to vanity, because of this. Thus all the creatures they lose by it, yea every thing in man loseth; The mind its light, the will its holiness, the affections their order, and the body its soundness and immortality; If all the creatures were turned into tongues, they would proclaim the loss of their primitive glory, and beauty, because of this sin.

2. As it is a spiritual loss, so it is an universal loss. The whole world is in a lost state, by losing this Image of God; Every creature hath lost in this universal losse; The earth hath lost its fruitfulness, yea the whole Creation groaneth, and is in bondage, subject to vanity, because of this. Thus all the creatures they lose by it, yea every thing in man loseth; The mind its light, the will its holiness, the affections their order, and the body its soundness and immortality; If all the creatures were turned into tongues, they would proclaim the loss of their primitive glory, and beauty, because of this sinne.