They are the Incli- nations of the Sod. A Treatife of the A,f feí`iionso hepherds boy that had taken a bird, and tyed a (lone to her legge, and as the bird would be offering to mount, the (tone pulled her down;fhe had filch a weight on her leg,fhe could not fly up : this good father fell a weeping, to confi- der, that fo it was with men, carnal men ; though perhaps they think to flie up to God by many good purpofes, they are Rill born down with their fïnnes their affections are clog'd, fecurity, deadneffe of heart, fèlf -love, and love of the things here below, like milftones made fall to their heels, their affections cannot mount up to God. Haft thou more affection to a game then a Sermon ? more affection to fit drinking in Ale - houles, then to be reproved for thy fins ? more affection to a good booty, then a good duty ? alas ! how canft thou let thine affeftions upon God? thine affe- nions are earthly affections, and therefore they cannot be placed upon God, Rom.i.z6. there reade of vile affefions. God gave up the Heathen to bale and vile affections : fo thefe are bate and vile, and carnal affeftions, that thou art given unto : thine affeftions are malice, and envy, and re- venge, which cannot be let upon God : they are worldly fears, and worldly forrows, and worldly joys, and worldly pleafures, and worldly delights, thefe are thine affeftions, thefe can never be placed upon God. They are. vile affedi- osas, too bale and difhonourable to God. Thine affections are lime- twig'd by Satan, they cannot fore up unto God. This is the firfl reafon, why a carnal man cannot let his af= fe lions upon God, becaufe his affections, which are the wings of his foul, are glued to the earth. Secondly, fI f feïius fuser inelinationies aniw, . The a fet7i- ens are the inclinations of the Soul: as a man is affected fo he is inclined ; and therefore the affe &ions in Scripture are cal- led the befit of the foul, My people are bent to backsliding from me,Hof, i 1.7. that is,their affections to me are unflable, unconflant and fickle, How flandsfuch a one bent ? as we lay; that is, how (lands he affected ? A man is bent to that which his affections are on ; now then is it pollible that a carnal
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