40 t pannenp Q * íbÍIt¢ZttCíbutt , Chap. III. forming them in the Womb, or in their Education, or by conducting them in their maturer Age, hath cor- ttom 3 , reeled the malignity of Nature. All men have finn'd and come fliort of the glory ofGod's Image. And that Sin breaksnot forth fooutragioufly in force as in others, the refiraint is from an higher Principle than common and corrupt Nature. 4. This Corruption though Natural, yet 'tis Volun- tary and Culpable. i. In force refpeds 'tis Voluntary : r. In its principle and caufe, the will of Adam that Originally was ours. All Habits receive their character from thofe ads by which theyare produced; and as the Difobedience of Adamwas voluntary, fo is the Depravation that fprung from it. 2. 'Tis inherent in theWill.. If Adam had derived a Leprofie to all Men it werean involuntary e- vil ; Becaufe theDifeafes of the Body are forreign to the Soul : But when the Corruption invades the internal Faculties, 'tis denominated from the fubjelI wherein 'tis feated. 3. 'Tis voluntary in its effects, the num- berlefs actual Sins proceeding from it : and if the as that freely flow from this corruption are voluntary, the principle muff be of the fame nature. 2. 'Tis Culpable. The formality of Sin confif}s in its oppofition to the Law, according to thedefinition of theApofile, sin is a tranfgrefon of the Law. Now the Law requiresan entire retlitude in all the Faculties. It condemns corrupt inclinations, theoriginals as well as the als of Sin. Betides, Concupifcence was not in- herent in the humane Naturei in its Creation, but was contracted by the Fall. The Soul is ftript of its na- tive Righteoufnefs and Holinefs, and invelled with contraryqualities. There is as great a difference be- tween the corruption of the Soul in its degenerate mate, and its primitive purity, as between the loath- fomnefs
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