A Treatife o f the AeCtions 13 The I I. Sermon. Color 3.z. Set your affeIlionson things that are above, &c. Hus I have (hewn you Firll, what the aflèllions be : Secondly, how a carnal man cannot fet his affeFìions upon God. But here it may be object- -' ed : Cannot a carnal man have good affections to God and to grace ? The people were fo atfeded with Johns preaching, and with his baptifm, that they would have been angry and zealoufly affefted againfl that man, whoever he was that Ihould have Paid it was not of God; they would have floned fuch an one to death, Luk.ao.6. the people molt of them were carnal, yet they were thus affeéted with his preaching. Certainly a carnal mans affe- ctions may bemarvelloufly wrought on. For the clearing of this doubt : Let me Phew you nine degrees, wherein the affeétions may be wrought on : in five of them, a carnal man may have his atfelhons to be wrought on, and in the lafl four of them he cannot. Firft, I will name you thefe nine degrees of the affections of the heart. The firft is, when they are fo farre wrought on, that the heart is enticed and allured much by them. Thus the eloquent Minifters in Corinth, it feems they wrought upon the peo- ples affedions exceedingly, their words were fo drawing, and their fpeech was fo inticing, that they came flocking to them. Saint Pau/confeffeth he would not preach fo, with the enticing words of mens Li'ifedom, i Cor. 2.4. what good Ihould I do, if my preaching were fuch ? it's true I might allure you and more you, and entice you, and ftirre your C 3 adidions; . The heart a enticed and allu- red by them,
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