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

But to answer this:

First, The Papists, they cannot consequentially to their principles say thus; For they hold, That if this Image of God be removed, he doth continue in his pure naturals, there is no sin inhering in him, upon the mere loss of that; For they confess, That although by acting from his ⟨p. 152⟩pure naturals he could not deserve Heaven, or love God as a supernatural end, yet in an inferior way, as the ultimate natural end, so he might love God, and that above all other things.

First, The Papists, they cannot consequentially to their principles say thus; For they hold, That if this Image of God be removed, he doth continue in his pure naturals, there is no sinne inhering in him, upon the meer losse of that; For they confesse, That although by acting from his ⟨p. 152⟩pure naturals he could not deserve Heaven, or love God as a supernatural end, yet in an inferiour way, as the ultimate natural end, so he might love God, and that above all other things.

But secondly, That is granted, This positive inclination to all evil, followeth necessarily from the removal of this Image of God from us; If the Sun be removed, then necessarily darkness doth cover the face of the soul; If the loco-motive faculty be interrupted, then there is nothing but halting and lameness: Disturb the harmony, and good temperament of the humours, and then immediately diseases and pains do surprise the whole man; It cannot therefore be avoided, that when this disorder is come upon the soul, but that our lusts break out as at a flood-gate, and we are in a spiritual deluge all over covered with the waters of sin; but then here is a positive as well as a privative.