3. The ;.im. pediment. B_caufe affoE?ions are the e- itimati- ons of the heart. A Treatife of the Af fei ions. was bewitcht with it : were not Sampfons affeftions be- witched with Delilah ? were not Herod' affeftions bewitcht with Herodi.0 ? were not Judas his affeftions bewitcht with the gain of thirty pence, that for it he fhould deny his own Mailer ? S. Paul tels the Galatians their affefti- ons were bewitcht. S. Fiierons thinks verily the devil was in them. The Drunkard is bewitcht with his cups : the Adulterer with his whore, the angry man with his choler, the vain man with his vanities, the carnal man with his flefh ; that they will damn their own fouls, rather then be new creatures. Beloved, are not ye bewitched in your fins, when all the preaching and teaching and warning ye have had, cannot yet turn you from your fins unto God, to fet your affeftions above ? this is a grievous let that fends mil- ! lions to hell, their affections bewitch them. Ye need no Devils to tempt you to finne : if your affeftions be once fet on it, they will bewitch you as bad as any devil can be- witch you. Nay, the devil cannot bewitch you to fin, but only by your affeftions. If ever thou rave thy foul, thou (halt finde it a great task to unbewitch thine affeftions, to fet them upon grace. Thirdly, Another let is, that as the affections are the be- witchings of the heart, fo they are the eftimations of the heart, If the thing be not good enough to be affected, which the affections are fet on, they efleem it worthy to be affected, 2ifyuis amat ranam, ranam putat eß"e Dia- nam. Many of you know the old Proverb, If a man fhould fet his affeftions on a frog, there's little goodneffe in a Frog, why it fhould be affected ; but if a man fhould fet his affeftions on a Frog, he would eaeem it as comely, as another would Diana. The affeftions if they be fet upon vanity, they do utterly befot one. Look upon the Drun- kard, he thinks it's a fine life to be potting and piping in the Ale -houfe : which a man in his wits knows to be bafe and brutifh, and hellifh. Look upon the vain. Gentleman,; he thinks it a fine life to be hunting and gamballiig and bragging
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