2. The lower end of this Chain, the universal depravation of Nature, called Peccatum original originatum; this hangs upon the former, all habitual Sin hath an essential relation to some actual Sin precedent. 'Tis impossible that one should be ⟨p. 180⟩a Sinner habitually, who in no kind sinned actually. If Adam had not sinned actually, he had never been habitually vitiated; nay, if we had not sinned in his Sin, we had never been so. This original Depravation is the sinning Sin, the Body of Sin, a Body in our Souls, Flesh in our Spirits, a Nail on our Eyes, a Plague in our Hearts, and a Root of bitterness in our whole Nature; this turns our Minds into Dungeons of darkness, our Wills into Gulfs of Sin, our Memories into leaking Vessels, our Fancies into Forges of Vanity, our Affections into Chambers of Imagery, our Members into Weapons of Unrighteousness, and our whole Man into a Man of Sin; insomuch that to be carnal is to walk [Greek or Hebrew], 1 Cor. 3. 3. When we are formed in the Womb, this Chain lies upon us, even in primo ardour, in the first warmth of natural Conception, Psal. 51. 5. And when Christ is formed in our Hearts, this Chain presses so hard upon the spiritual Embryo, that as soon as ever it begins to live, it falls a sighing and groaning with tears, Oh! my hard heart! Oh! my unbelieving heart! Oh! my carnal sensual heart! Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of ⟨p. 181⟩death? Rom. 7. 24. Nay, the very Philosophers themselves (who never kenned so far as the top of this Chain, I mean Adam's Sin) yet seem to feel the weight of it: Wherefore sometimes they complain of a Sepulchrum Corporis, as if [Greek or Hebrew] were become [Greek or Hebrew], a Grave to the Soul; and sometimes they cry out of a Defluvium Pennarum, as if the Soul had lost her Wings. Whither also may be referred the Trismegists Indumentum Inscitiae, Pravitatis Fundamentum, Corruptionis Vinculum, Velamen opacum; with many such like expressions touching the weight and pressure of this Chain, involving Men in a horrid slavery and captivity.
2. The lower end of this Chain, the universal depravation of Nature, called Peccatum originale originatum; this hangs upon the former, all habitual Sin hath an essential relation to some actual Sin precedent. 'Tis impossible that one should be ⟨p. 180⟩a Sinner habitually, who in no kind sinned actually. If Adam had not sinned actually, he had never been habitually vitiated; nay, if we had not sinned in his Sin, we had never been so. This original Depravation is the sinning Sin, the Body of Sin, a Body in our Souls, Flesh in our Spirits, a Nail on our Eyes, a Plague in our Hearts, and a Root of bitterness in our whole Nature; this turns our Minds into Dungeons of darkness, our Wills into Gulfs of Sin, our Memories into leaking Vessels, our Fancies into Forges of Vanity, our Affections into Chambers of Imagery, our Members into Weapons of Unrighteousness, and our whole Man into a Man of Sin; insomuch that to be carnal is to walk 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 1 Cor. 3. 3. When we are formed in the Womb, this Chain lies upon us, even in primo ardore, in the first warmth of natural Conception, Psal. 51. 5. And when Christ is formed in our Hearts, this Chain presses so hard upon the spiritual Embryo, that as soon as ever it begins to live, it falls a sighing and groaning with tears, Oh! my hard heart! Oh! my unbelieving heart! Oh! my carnal sensual heart! Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of ⟨p. 181⟩death? Rom. 7. 24. Nay, the very Philosophers themselves (who never kenned so far as the top of this Chain, I mean Adam's Sin) yet seem to feel the weight of it: Wherefore sometimes they complain of a Sepulchrum Corporis, as if 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 were become 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Grave to the Soul; and sometimes they cry out of a Defluvium Pennarum, as if the Soul had lost her Wings. Whither also may be referred the Trismegists Indumentum Inscitiae, Pravitatis Fundamentum, Corruptionis Vinculum, Velamen opacum; with many such like expressions touching the weight and pressure of this Chain, involving Men in a horrid slavery and captivity.
