54 That the Nature of man is full of SÉ.I under the ludge, trembling at his word,at his judge- ment, this is not a good Confcience. Your Con- fcience may reftraine you from many things ; nay, you may doe many things in fecret betweene you and G o D alone, and yet for all this have no good, but an evils Confcience. So you lee the corruption of man in the Vnderftanding, Will, Memory, and Confcience. I will adde another, and that is the fen- fuall Appetite. f. Tire comp And this you (hall finde exceedingly out of or-- Lion of the fen. +..cïvcAppcc;ce: der above all thefe faculties I have nam.d,it is readie to runne over, and beyond all meafure. By this I undetftand, that appetite in a man, by which tree taketh pleafure in fenfible things, filch as are con- veyed by the eyes,the cares, or the tafle; fct any ob_ jest before it, it is readie to runne out quickly, by inordinate affections, as to women, to meate and drinke, to any kinde of (port, or recreation, or fen- f ble thing. How corrupt is this fenfuall Appetite r How prone to evils a How ready to runne our a To breake over the Pale, to goe afide the rule e .If any delightful! objedt be propounded, how ready is it to embrace it Obj But, you will fay, ( and indeed it is Bellarmines quarrelling.) The rebellion of the fenfuall Appetite is but natural!, the fame that is in beafts, becaufe, be- fore originali finne was committed, hee was in the time conftitution,there was fuck rebellion betweene the fenfuall appetite and reafon, as there is now, and therefore being naturali, it is not finfull. Leinfiv. But this is his Errour, though every man be here- by readie to excufc himfelfe, thinking the rebellion of
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