no A Treati¡c of the A è s ion they intangle thee, Sometimes thou art merry and jocond fora pang, anon thou are melancholy and fad for a fix, Sometimes thou art angry with a fervant, ora childe, or 4 wife, or a neighbour, anon thou art pleafed. Sometime a danger comes, and fears thee, anon it is gone, and thou art fecure. Sometimes one affection, fomerinaes another, Sometimes a hating, and fometimes a loving, fometimes deliring, and fotnetimes hoping. Thus thou liveflt and thus thou diefl, and perifheft for ever through the intan- glements. The ark) ffeaions are &ions are The in, in regard of other atis of the foul. And here is a fubdivifion in a high of heads. degree in t. The affeÇtions provoke thoughts, and therefore if regard cf the ao}so( the affections be earthy, the thoughts are all earthy. the foul. z. The affections encreafe lulls, and therefore if the affe- Ctions be carnal, the lulls are all carnal. 3. The affections inferre purpofes and refolutions, and therefore if the affections be to the things of this life, the purpofes and refolutions of the heart are fo too. 4, The affechons inferre devifings and contrivings, and therefore if the affections be vain, fo are the devices. From all which thou mayfl fee the infinite mifery thou art in, if' the affections be fet here below. Firfl, Becaufe if thine affe- ctions be let here below, fo are thy thoughts. When Saul had a treacherous affection unto David, he made as though he did affea him fo well, as to make him his fonne in law; it was a treacherous affefion : but the Text (ayes, fo Were his thoughts. Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philifiims, r Sam.t 8. z5. As his affections were trea- cherous, fo his thoughts were in like manner treacherous. Theaffeclions are the feet of the foul, as I told you now when thefe feet run to evil, fo do the thoughts. Their feet run to evil, their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Ifa.59 . So that look what thine affections are to, to that are thy thoughts. You may remember what was proved to you of the
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