A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is, by pregnant texts of Scripture vindicated from false glosses / by Anthony Burgess.

SECT. VII.

Their roving and wandring up and down without any fixed way.

FIfthly, Their roving and wandring up and down without any fixed and setled way; They fly up and down, and frisk here and there; so that although they were a multitude, yet if in a setled ordered way, ther might be some spiritual advan∣tage made of them; As a great Army, if well marshalled, may be usefull, but now here is nothing but confusion and disorders in thy imagination; so that sometimes many fancyes come into thy head at the same time; that thy head

and heart is all in uproar, which breedeth another particular of sinfulness, and that is, The hurry and continuall noise that a man hath daily within him, as if a swarme of Bees were in his soul; Christ told Martha, She was troubled about many things, but one thing was necessary, Luk. 10. 41; The word signifieth, she was in a crowd (as it were) There was a great noise within her, as men make in a market, or some common meeting; As those in a Mill have such a noise within that they cannot hear any speaking to them without: Thus it is here, the imagination fils thy soul with cumbersome thoughts, with confused noises, so that thou canst seldome make quiet and calme approaches unto God in any holy duty; and if so be the ground tilled and dressed, doth bring forth such bryars and thornes, is it any wonder that the wilderness doth? If in a godly man, there be nothing so much annoyeth him, which is so constant a burden and complaint to him, as these tumul••ouns imaginations, these roving fancyes, flying up and down like so many feathers in a stormy wind, what can we think is continually in the imagination of a natural man?