SECT. I.
And the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the com∣ing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
HItherto we have been discovering the universal pollution of the soul by original sinne, and that both in the upper and lower region, the rational and sensitive part thereof; Our method now requireth, that we should manifest the defilement and con∣tagion that is upon the Body also: For as it was in the deluge, that did overflow the world, the cause did precede both from above and beneath, Gen. 7. 11. The fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of Heaven were opened; from above and below did come the overflowing of waters: Thus it is in that spiritual deluge of sinne, which doth overflow all mankind, There is corruption in the superiour parts of the soul, and there is also in the body the lowest and meanest part of man: So that what∣soever goeth to the making of man, is all over defiled; There is nothing in soul or body but is become thus polluted, we therefore proceed to the last sub∣ject of Inhesion, or seat of original sinne, and that is the body of man, which will be declared from the Text we are to insist upon.