166 VireEionsforgetting andkeeping for the World, theF lefh and the Devil , and every little is enough for God. And that thefe wretched fouls are fo blinded by their own lulls, and fo be- witched by the Divel into an utter Ignorance of their own hearts,that they verily think,andwill Rand in it, that for all this they Love God'above all, and love Heavenly things better then Earthly, and there- fore fhall be Paved. But yet Extreams there are in the fccvice of Good, which all wife Chriftians mua labourto avoid. t is a very great Quellion among Divines, Whether the common Rule in Ethicks, That Virtue id ever in the middle betWee;a tìo extreamr, be found, as to Chrifti- an Virtues : A efiri faith No. Thecafe is not ve- ry hard, I think, to be refolved, if you will but ufe there three Diflinuions. t. Between the As of the sneer Rational faculties, Underaanding and Wiil, called EliciteAds ; and theAs of the Inferiour faculties of foul and body, called, Imperare Ads. 2. Between the As that are About the End imme- diately, and thofe that areAbout the Means. 3. Be- tween the Intention of an Ac`s , and the Objeá'ive Extenfion and Companion óf Obje& with Obp. je&. Audio I fay : i. The End ( that is, God and Salvation) cannot be too fully Known, or too much Loved, with a pure Rational Love of Complacency, nor toomuch fought by the Ads of the foul,as pure- ly Rational : For the End being loved and fought for it fetf, and being of Infinite Goodnefs , mutt be loved and fought without Meafureor Limitation, it being Impofsìble .hereto exceed. Trop. 2. The Means, while they are not mil-apprehended , but taken as Means and Materialty well underfload ca r-
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