I. Sin is the Sickness of the Soul▪ Sin brings Many, Loathsome, Deadly Diseases on the Soul. There cleaves to every man in the world, a Corruption, which (after Austin,) we call, Original Sin: or, a Principle Rebelling against the Holy God, and Transgressing of His Holy, and Just, and Good Commandments. This our Original Sin, is the Original of all the Sickness on our Body. Hence, when our Lord bore our Sins, 'tis said, He ⟨p. 6⟩bare our Sicknesses ▪ Our Moral Distempers are the Cause of our Natural ones. And Original Sin is it self the Sickness of our Soul. In regard of Original Sin, it may be said of us, as in Isa. 1.5, 6. The whole Head is Sick, and the whole Heart Faint; from the sole of the foot, even unto the Head, there is no Soundness; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores. The man of God once mentioned those two things together, Psal. 103.3. He forgiveth all thine Iniquities, He healeth all thy Diseases: And indeed those two things may meet in one; for our Iniquities are our Diseases. For this cause, Deliverance from Sin, is called by the Name of Healing: when 'tis said, Isa. 6, 10. They Convert and be Healed, it is as much as if it had been said, By Conversion they be Saved from their Sin.
I. Sin is the Sickness of the Soul▪ Sin brings Many, Loathsome, Deadly Diseases on the Soul. There cleaves to every man in the world, a Corruption, which (after Austin,) we call, Original Sin: or, a Principle Rebelling against the Holy God, and Transgressing of His Holy, and Just, and Good Commandments. This our Original Sin, is the Original of all the Sickness on our Body. Hence, when our Lord bore our Sins, 'tis said, He ⟨p. 6⟩bare our Sicknesses ▪ Our Moral Distempers are the Cause of our Natural ones. And Original Sin is it self the Sickness of our Soul. In regard of Original Sin, it may be said of us, as in Isa. 1.5, 6. The whole Head is Sick, and the whole Heart Faint; from the sole of the foot, even unto the Head, there is no Soundness; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores. The man of God once mentioned those two things together, Psal. 103.3. He forgiveth all thine Iniquities, He healeth all thy Diseases: And indeed those two things may meet in one; for our Iniquities are our Diseases. For this cause, Deliverance from Sin, is called by the Name of Healing: when 'tis said, Isa. 6, 10. They Convert and be Healed, it is as much as if it had been said, By Conversion they be Saved from their Sin.
