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

The Privative Part of original corruption being largely discovered, we come now to the Positive Part of it: For although many of the Papists deny it, laying the whole nature of it in a mere want of original righteousness, yet not only the Protestants generally, but Aquinas and some who follow him, do plead for this Positive Part in original corruption as well as the Privative, and is therefore called Flesh, as here in the Text, and in other places lust; Of which in its due time. We are not then to conceive of this birth-sin, as a mere privation of the Image of God, but as including also therewith, a propensity and inclination to all evil.

THe Privative Part of original corruption being largely discovered, we come now to the Positive Part of it: For although many of the Papists deny it, laying the whole nature of it in a meer want of original righteousnes, yet not only the Protestants generally, but Aquinas and some who follow him, do plead for this Positive Part in original corruption as well as the Privative, and is therefore called Flesh, as here in the Text, and in other places lust; Of which in its due time. We are not then to conceive of this birth-sinne, as a meer privation of the Image of God, but as including also therewith, a propensity and inclination to all evil.