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

First, In the mysteries of Religion, which are revealed unto in by a supernatural light; The mind of man, because it cannot comprehend of them in a carnal, or bodily manner, much more if not by natural reason (though that be corrupt) is ready to despise and reject all; What was the reason, that Christ crucified is such a foolish Doctrine to be believed by the learned Grecian, but because it was not agreeable to natural reason? When Peter made that Confession concerning Christ, That he was the Son of the living God; Christ tells him, Flesh and blood had not revealed that to him, Mat. 16. 17. And doth not this fleshly mind still effectually move in Atheists and Heretics? Is not this the bane of Socinian persons, that they will make reason a judge of divine Mysteries, whereas that it s•lt is corrupt, and is it self to be judged by the word of God? So that the power of original sin, as it is flesh, manifests it self about all the supernatural Doctrines and Truths revealed in the Gospel. We that are Pygmies think to measure these Pyramids, we think to receive the whole Ocean in our little shell: Hence it is that Paul, 2 Cor. 8. 5, 6. will have all our imaginations, every high thought brought into captivity.

First, In the mysteries of Religion, which are revealed unto in by a supernatural light; The mind of man, because it cannot comprehend of them in a carnal, or bodily manner, much more if not by natural reason (though that be corrupt) is ready to despise and reject all; What was the reason, that Christ crucified is such a foolish Doctrine to be believed by the learned Grecian, but because it was not agreeable to natural reason? When Peter made that Confession concerning Christ, That he was the Sonne of the living God; Christ tels him, Flesh and blood had not revealed that to him, Mat. 16. 17. And doth not this fleshly mind still effectually move in Atheists and Heretiques? Is not this the bane of Socinan persons, that they will make reason a judge of divine Mysteries, whereas that it s•lt is corrupt, and is it self to be judged by the word of God? So that the power of original sinne, as it is flesh, manifests it self about all the supernatual Doctrines and Truths revealed in the Gospel. We that are Pigmies think to measure these Pyramides, we think to receive the whole Ocean in our little shell: Hence it is that Paul,