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g.see7.6. Lt*AV fen re our toy and grit* about theft earrh'y thingr,are fines ofour toue of the world. , -gin- 266 The ir:vaes of the lone o fthe:vorld. it cannot indeed bec denied, but that in refpe& of fenfc. and feeling a man may more rcioyce in worldly things,then in God,and heauenly excellencies, & anfwerabiy may haue more care,fcare andgriefc about the keeping and losing of thcm,then the other; and yet may truly loue and reioycein God, and gricue forhis tannes, becaufe he kath difpleafed him ; for as we are more flehh then fpirit, fo our carnal] affe- &ions and paliions,are more flrong and violent about fleffi- carnall things, then about things diuine and,fpiritu- all : both becaufewe haue more corruption then grace in 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 both which 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 to be meafured by our fenfes,their quantitie,and violence of ourpaf!ous,but according to their fmplicitie and fincerity. But yet ifin our fenfe,or in the quantitic and degree,our ioy in the world exceed our ioy in God, and our forrow for earthly loffes, be more firong and violent, then it is for fin, and the loffe ofGods fauour, it cannot be denied, but that it proceedeth from the flrength and violence ofour naturals 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&ions more vpon earthly vanities, then vpon heauenly excellencies, we mull not tell conten- ted with our imperfe&ions and corruptions, and applaud our (clues, becaufc wee haue in vs the loue ofGod in Tome meafure,and(though not in the beate of our affe&ions,yet) in the foundneffe ofour 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