A Treatife o f the Afe5tiona4 feated aright as they (land, fo a moderation be kept they have no need to change objeç`ls : The of ell -ions of the - heart, thefeare the affeftions the Lord doth call for'; the ¿ut -go ings of the heart : as the fenfe is afraid of a Lyon, fo is a godly heart afraid to Cm againfl God; as the fenfe is joyful to'have cafe after trouble, fo a godly heart is joyful with a good confcience in Chrifl; as the fenfe loves that which doth feed it, fo a godly heart loves God that doth nourifh it': and therefore A4aflin,and Galen,and Scotue,andwhy fay I them ? the Scriptures fay,the affeftions are motions in the heart, Mine Eye of etteth my heart, faith the poor Church, Lam.3.5 I. that is, wheit,fhe beheld the lamentaile diflref- fes of the daughters of Sion, this flirted up the affec`lion of 3. They are ,pity in her heart. Thirdly, As the affeftions are the motions of the heart, fo they are the forci hie motions of the heart ; every little mo- tion of ce in the heart is not an affe&ion, but only the forcible heart. motions of the heart ; a man is then laid to let his affe- i i- of eft ons upon God, when his heart goes with force unto God impers:, for as God appoints every creature his task, and to Peek out ursilmz_ PP Y husvertit. its own good, fo he gives it a force for to do it ; the (lone, Maio ani- its nature is to fall downwards, and God gives it a weigh- »a pt! asl tineffe that it may fall downwards with force : the flomack, aliquil its nature is to take food when it is empty, and God, gives foxrJi ve it a hunger that it may take it with force : every creature atiunde in- hath not only its motion to move-it to its own good, but it cuata öq. goes -to it with force ; fo God bath given affections to the suivd arur heart, as weight to the (lone, and hunger to the flomack ; Sroieu. fo God I fay bath given affeftions to the heart, that it may feek out its good with a force, fo that then does a man let his affeftions upon God,when he fets all his forces to God- ward. When David had given 84.7 millions 382 thoufand 5oó .pound inGlver and gold of his own charges to the buil- ding of Gods houle, for fo the learned may gather out of two Chapters in the Chronicles, you may well think he employed all his forces thereto ; but what faies the Text, B3 1
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