Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 199 reprefenting the Object, and the working nature and weight of the Object reprefented, and upon the heat and mobility of the fpirits, and temperature of the body, as upon the command of the Willa 4. Much lefs can the Will command out all vicious habits and fenfual or corrupt inclinations:and there- fore a true Chriflian may well fay in rel-pect of thefe, that he would be more holy, heavenly And difpofed to good, and lefs to evil, but he cannot. g. As for complacency and difplacency, liking or diíliling , love and hatred , fo far as they, are pafsions, I have fpoke of them before : but fo far as they are the immediate as oftheWill (Willing and Nilling) they are not properly faid to be command- ed by it, but elicit, or ailed by it : (wherein, how far it hathpower is a moff noble CZeflion; but unfit for this place or your capacity.) And thus you fee that there are many Ad-0s of the Soul, betide Habits, which the Will cannot now perfectly command, and fo a Chrifiian cannot be what he would be, nor do the things that he would : And thefe are the firft fort of fins of Infirmity. if you fay, Sure thefe can ItiL444 fins, becaufe We are not willing of them, and there ti no morefin then there ís Will in it. I anfver, t . We were in Adam willing of that fin which caufed them z. We are in fome degree inclining in our Wills to fin, thoughGod have that prevalent part and deter- mination, which in comparative cafes doth denomi- nate them. . 7he Underftanding and Will may be moft hainouily guilty where they do not content, in that they do not more ftronglydifl'ent,and more po- tentlyand ru]ingly command all the ft jedfaculties, q. 4, Ai
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