A Body of Practical Divinity

That we may further see the Nature of Original sin, consider 1. The Universality of it; it hath, as a Poison, diffused it self into all the parts and powers of our Soul, Isa. 1.5. The whole Head is sick, the whole heart is faint. Like a sick Patient that hath no part sound, his Liver swelled, his Lungs perished, his Feet gangrened; such infected gangrened Souls have we, till Christ (who hath made a Medicine of his Blood) do Cure us,

That we may further see the Nature of Original sin, consider 1. The Universality of it; it hath, as a Poison, diffused it self into all the parts and powers of our Soul, Isa. 1.5. The whole Head is sick, the whole heart is faint. Like a sick Patient that hath no part sound, his Liver swell'd, his Lungs perish'd, his Feet gangren'd; such infected gangren'd Souls have we, till Christ (who hath made a Medicine of his Blood) do Cure us,

1. Original sin hath depraved the [Greek or Hebrew], the intellectual part; as in the Creation Darkness was upon the face of the deep, Gen. 1.2. so the Understanding; darkness is upon the face of this Deep. As there is Salt in every drop of the Sea, bitterness in every branch of Wormwood, so there is Sin in every Faculty; the Mind is obnubilated, we know little of God. Ever since Adam did eat of the Tree of Knowledge, and his Eyes were opened, we lost our Eyesight. Besides Ignorance in the Mind, there is Error and Mistake, we do not judge rightly of things, we put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter, Isa. 5.20. Besides this, there is much pride, superciliousness, and prejudice, many fleshly reasonings against the Truth, and swarms of vain Thoughts, Jer. 4.14. How long shall vain thoughts lodge in thee.