A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

This Truth is something clear from the grounds already laid down; but we shall for further clearing and confirming of it, add these following Arguments. The first is this.

1 That tickling delight, as an evil against the Law of God, is a fruit of original sin, which sin infects all our imaginations, and makes them evil. Gen. 6.5. yea, they are the flowings out of habitual lust, which is now nature •l to us; and if they be a Fruit of that Tree, or a Daughter of that Mother, must th •y not be of the same nature, and so sinful? and that they must flow from Original sin, may thus be made out; That none can imagine such dreams to have been incident to Adam, in the state of Innocency, while all was pure, even though sleep and dreams w •re natural to him: And this may be confirmed •rom that one Maxim of the School-men, that Adam's Innocency was capable of no deception, nor of any thing which might make him sad, •ither slay •ping or waking; but such dreams c •rtainly imply both. It it be said, such dreams may be from an external cause as the Devils objecting such and such things to m •n in sleep: I answer, I g ••nt in part it may be so; but 1. Though he object th •m to us sl ••ping as well as waking, yet it is we that entertain th •se objected Representations, it is we that delight in them, and move by them, though tempted thereto by him: we may say he is Father▪ and as it is,