iZ A Treatife 0f theAeEFianr. to that new King ; the Text (ayes, he was trembled, Matth. z. . fear and fhame, and grief, and vexation, and all his affeétions, they were all up in arms, and would not let him be quiet : they troubled him, faies St Matthew. Yea, thy made fuch a difturbance in Herod, they did fo baffle his judgement, and bufie his thoughts, and torture his minde, that they drove him to murther God knows how many (cores of poor Infants : before they would be quiet, they made him a mad man. Thus the affections are grievous perturbations, when they are once come to be mil-placed ; and if they be fuch perturbations as they are,alas ! how can a carnal man fet his affe }ions upon God ? they are maller- leffe wilde horfes, and he cannot fubdue them : they are bedlams and frantick mifleaders, and he cannot overcome them : they are defperate things, his affections are fo giddy and unruly, that he can never be Chrifls, as long as his affe- nions are alive; unleffe they be let upon the tenters, and put upon the wreck, and tamed perforce, they will never be right : and therefore faies the Aponte, Thole that are Chrii shavecrucifyedthe fie/b, With the offeïfionsand lugs, Gal.5.24. Thofe that are Chrifls have done fo, or elfe they could never be Chrifls, becaufe the atfections are perturba- tions and dillurbances, moll woful perturbations they are. And this is a fourth reafon why a carnal man cannot fet his affeftions upon God, becaufe his affections are perturbati- ons, and like a company of wilde horfes, that will not be. ruled. The
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