g.see7.6. Lt*AV fenre our toyand grit* about theft earrh'y thingr,are finesofour toueof the world. , -gin- 266 Their:vaes of the lone ofthe:vorld. it cannot indeed bec denied, but that inrefpe& of fenfc. and feelinga man may more rcioyce in worldly things,then inGod,and heauenly excellencies, & anfwerabiy may haue more care,fcare andgriefc about the keeping and losing of thcm,then theother; and yet may truly loue and reioycein God, and gricue forhis tannes, becaufe he kath difpleafed him ; for aswe are more flehh then fpirit, fo our carnal] affe- &ions and paliions,are more flrong and violent about fleffi- carnall things, thenabout things diuine and,fpiritu- all : both becaufewe haue more corruption then gracein vs, and alto becaufe thefe earthly things which are natural! and fentble,both in their inioying and in their loffe, doe more fenfibly affe&our naturali affe&ions. Whereas our affecrli- ons towards God and heauenly things are fpiritualI and fu- pernaturall; and the things which we thus affect diuine and heawenly; in bothwhich refpecls,they are not fo fenlible as the other. And therefore the truth ofour loue, reioycing, feare and Crrow, about heauenly and earthlythings,is not tobe meafured by our fenfes,their quantitie,andviolence of ourpaf!ous,but according to their fmplicitie and fincerity. But yet ifinour fenfe,or in thequantiticand degree,our ioy in the world exceed our ioy in God, and our forrow for earthlyloffes, be more firong and violent, then it is for fin, and the loffe ofGods fauour, it cannot be denied, but that itproceedeth from the flrength and violence ofournaturals corruptions, and that wee haue the like corruption in our loue; which in refpedlof the ardencicand heate, affeaeth earthly things more then heauenly. And therefore ta- king noticehereof,that we loue the world mort:then God, and that wee fet our affe&ionsmore vpon earthly vanities, then vpon heauenly excellencies, we mull not tell conten- tedwith our imperfe&ions and corruptions, and applaud our (clues, becaufc wee hauein vs the loue ofGod in Tome meafure,and(though not in the beate ofour affe&ions,yet) in the foundneffeofour judgements we more élleeme him, but we muff labour earne(lly to perfe& our wants, and ta mortifie our corruptions, and neuer to be at quiet, hut flill afpiring
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