The Sincere Convert

III. Every natural man and woman is borne full of all sin, Rom. 1. 29.¹ as full as a Toad is full of poison, as full as ever his skin can hold; Mind, Will, Eyes, Mouth, every limb of his body, end every piece of his soul is full of sin; their hearts are bundles of sin: hence Solomon saith, foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; whole treasures of sin, An evil man (saith Christ) out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth evil things; nay raging seas of sin, Isaiah 20.² nay worlds of sin. The tongue is a World of mischief; what is the heart then? for out of the abundance of the heart the tongue speaketh: so that look about thee and see, what ever sin is broached and runs out of any mans heart into his life through the whole world, ⟨p. 52⟩all those sins are in thine heart; thy mind is a nest of all the soul opinions, berisies, that ever were vented by any man; thy heart is a stinking sinkhole of all Atheism, Sodomy, Blasphemy, Murder, Whoredom, Adultery, Witchcraft, Buggery; so that if thou hast any good thing in thee, it is but as a drop of Rose-water in a bowl of poison, where fallen, it is all corrupted.

III. Every naturall man and woman is borne full of all sin, Rom. 1. 29.¹ as full as a Toade is full of poison, as full as ever his skin can hold; Minde, Will, Eyes, Mouth, every limbe of his body, end every piece of his soul is full of sin; their hearts are bundles of sin: hence Salomon saith, foolishnesse is bound up in the heart of a child; whole treasures of sinne, An evill man (saith Christ) out of the evill treasure of his heart, bringeth forth evill things; nay raging seas of sinne, Isaiah 20.²