Queßioni,andCafes ofConfcience aboutAf5fions,&c. Chap. 6 Palions indeed, ifthey be immoderate, are infirmities of r he foul : if they fubmir to Retfon andFaith, they are inffruments and obje&s of Vertue, the artnes ofReafon , and, as it were, lively fparkswhich inflame delires in our foules. Qçetl. What are the Rational e/1ffeflions ? Áf ir. `They are fuchas appe:Lain ro the Will, of which theyare immediate a&s, ditelaed by the tlnderflanding. Quell." F3ov may it be proved that there are ..Iffetlions' in the higinft and A f ò: 1. Becaule the Scriptures afcribe toGod "love, hatred, anF,er, zeal, &c. who cannot be fubleoi to any fenfitive aberrations, and therefore as inhim they are perfe lions, we are co:nmanded to imitate him in them : fo there is no reafonwhy they should be denied ro us in fuch fort as they be perfe&, and that is principally in the Intelle &ual power ofthe foul. We certainly know that our fenfiuve'appetite, cannot love, hate,fear, hope, &c. but what maybe conceived by imagination, or fenficive apprehenfion,: for yrtggtray love thing but cannot10 e 04,unknotvii thin;'_' and ex= perience thews, that menmay fear6òd, love him, 'and hope in hum : that they may hate fin, and exercife many notableatfe&Fions that Reaion prefcribes, and whereunto the fe nfitive apprehcnuorì afccndeth not. As our Wit underfiandeth whatfoever our fenfes perceive, even fo our Will may affe1 ,hatfocver our Pallions do follow : Foras the obje& of the Wir is all truth, whether real or apparent : fo the Obje& of omit Will is all good, either fo indeed, or carrying the áloffe thereof: But thefe A ff&ions which refide in the reafonable part of the foul, differ much in nature and quality from thofe in the inferiour parts of the foul : becaufe they are immaterial, fpiritual, and independent of any corporal fubje& ; but theother are material, corporal, and ce ending upon force bodily inllruinents. Quell. How may it be proved that theft RationalAffel1i:its are motions of the spill? Becaufe.they'are cónverfant'about fpiritual, cael.lìial, yea, eternal objeas : as of God, Chril Heaven, &c. Cal. 32. ofwhich the fenfcive appe- tite is uncapable. They remain in the foul when its feparated from the body : the Saints carry them toheaven withthem, as love, joy, hope : but the fenfitive appetite will then; be of no ile to them after the Refur:eaion of the body, which will be raised a fpiritual body, to be fuPained without any bodily meanes, having noneed of food, cloathing, marriage, &c. about which the appetitewas here convexfanr. They are tobe found in the Angels both good and bad, which have neither bodies nor fenfitive appetites. The Angels inheaven rejoyce at the Converfi- on of a firmer, Like r 5. so. and delire to look into. Gofpel-myfleries, a 'Pet. s. 12. and the devils feare and tremble, Jam. 2.19. Tanlmakes theWill the feat of the Affe&ions, andjoynesthem - together, 17 htf, 2. S. being alleclionately defirous of yon, wewere willing to have Impart- ed toyou, rot theGofpel only, but our own foal. Queff: Are theft rational Affeflions fo elevated above the body, as that they have nothing to do with it ? no,, not whileFt thefoul is in the body ? Anjw. Yea, though they are originally and radically in the Will, yet the Will flits up thefenfual Affe&ions, and they fir the humours and parts of the body, efpecrally the fpirits and the blood, and fo make thewhole man ro fuffer, both body and foul. Hence they are called P41ione : As Feare chills theblood Anger boiles ir; Grief contra&s and clofeth up the Heart : Jcy dilates it, &c. Quei. ehs.ffl part of rhefor ,
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