He was in love with hisNover ca. L. de ludo parve ATreat f of the Ajeetions. per his heart upon good, that it might be the harder to loo - I fen it. He gave him the affeftion of love to embrace good. If the good were wanting, he gave him the affe- Fhun of delire, to hunger after it. If the good were pof- fble to get, he gave him the affeftion of hope to expel it if the good were once gotten, he gave him the affeftion of joy to delight in it. If there were any danger to lofe it, he gave him the affection of fear to be afraid of it. If the good were once loll indeed, he gave him the affeftion of grief and of forrow to lament it. If he fhould meet with any thing that would hinder him in the profecution of good, he gave him the affeftion of hatred to oppofe it, &c. Thus God embroydered the affedlions, and wove them together, that trill mans heart might be knit by, the affedlions to good' "and to God. And wilt thou now fet thine affedlions on the things of this life ? thou little thinke'l how thou twifteft and hamperefl thy foul about thefe things, thine affedlionswill make thee live and die a' carnal wretch. Had not Tralifiratm cured Antiochus of his carnal affedlion, it had con him his life, for he was fick of it unto death. Galen (ayes, he met with many Fick pati- ents, if he had not cured their affedlions, he had never re- covered them. The affedlions hamper the foul unto death. So if thou fet thine affedlions on the things here on earth, they will fo hamper thy heart, that unleffe thine affedlions be cured, thy foul is defperately incurable ; they entangle thy foul, thou can't not get free. And therefore S. Peter cals falling into earthly affedlions, he cals it, entangling. If after they have efcaped the pollutions of the flefh they are again entangled., a Pet.a.ao. That is, if after they haveonce, gotten out, they fall in again ; becaufe they cannot fall in- again, but their lulls arid affedions will not entangle them again. Be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage, Ga1.5.7, Paul knew if the Galatians were addided to the Ceremonies of the-Law, they would afi`edt them more then - the Commandments of quill. And therefore he gives them advice
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