to the E PHE S I AN S. . -~· -- ;any Birds in,, Nefr, that ftand gJping to be fill'd with Come good thing fuita)>le ~ thereunto. So tb t now there 3fe not only the fenfual Defi res, or the bowly ~ Lults, but the Lu!l:s of the Mind; the Mind it felf bath its Lufts in it, and its Defircs. As a man bath a ddire to think of this rather than of that, ( tho it be his Underthnding only that works ) he bath a mind to fueha thing, a thought to fueh an Object, to take fuch a thing into confideration. All the fuperior parts, the Memory, and the Underfranding, they have all .their Lufrings, •.s well ast he lower and inferior parts of the Spmt of Man. Now then th eflenttal conlhtution of the Soul of Man being nothing but a Chaos of Defires, Jn emptincfs, (as the Earth, the firfr matter, In Gm. I. 'is faid to be void; fo naturally in the eflence ofit, the Soul is a void thing, made to be filled up with ot er things, ) which may fatisfy this vafr Chaos of defires, the Lord.ordained fir[{ himfelf to be Man's chiefefr good, and to fatisfy, and to fill all the Defires, both of the Un– der!tanding, and the Will : He opened their Mouths wide~ and he was able, and ordained himfelfto fill them. And to that end he created htm wnh the Image of God, that is, with fuch a Divine impreffion, that look as the Needle, when it is touched by the Loadfrone, it moves Northward ; fo the Soul being touched with that Image, it carries the Underfranding, the Will and Affections, and all the Lufr• thereof, unto God, as the chiefefr good, as finding a Suitablenefs in him, more than in all things elfe. And yet (in the fecond place) God putting this Soul of Man into a Body, and fo to lead an animal Life, (as the expreffion is in I Cor. IS· 48.) he made a World fuited to this Soul in this Body : And there is nothing in Man, either in his Underfranding, or his Will, or in any of the Senfes, or in any thing belonging unto Man, but there is fomething in the World likewife to fuit it. He bath made the little World fuited to the great World, and the great World to the little ; os he bath fuited ears unto founds, Meats for the Belly, as the Apoille faith. Now then, Secondly; Wherein lay the Holinefs of all thefe Lufrings and Defrres of the Soul of Man ? The Holinefs of them lay in thefe three things, and by that you lhall fee, wherein lieth their Sinfulnefs. r. This Image ofGod, which had touched the Soul of Man, through the working of the Spirit of God in him, did carry on the Soul of Man to God, as his chiefefl: Good, to nothing above Him, to fay, Whom have I in Heaven in com– parifon of thee, and whom in Earth? And, 2. It carried the Soul of Man, and all its Detires, to other things, that bad a fweetnefs in them, but only as means to tafre the goodnefs of God, to enjoy God in and by them, to know God the more, and to love him. And then, 3· It carried on all the Defires of the Soul to all things elfe befides God, for God's C1ke; yea, and unto God himfelf, not only as his chiefet:i Good, but as the chiefefr Good, not out of love of pleafure, but out of Love unto God himfelf: for Holinefs being the Image of God, as God ii for himfelf, (therein lieth his Ho· linels ) fo this Image makes the Creature alfo to be for God. And thus you have the Holinefs ofthefe Lufrings in the Soul of Man. I have lhewed you, firfr, What the natural Confritution ofthe Soul was in it felf; it is . indeed nothing elfe but Lufrs, an heap of Detires: What the Holinefs of all rhefe Detires, was, I have !hewn you, in the fecond place. Now then, Thirdly; I am to !hew you the Sinfulnefs of them, which makes them to be here called, the Lufti of 011r Flejb. You may eatily underfrand, by what bath been faid of the Holinefs of them, wherein their Sinfuloe!S lies. 1oa word, it lies in two things : It lies, I. In a Privation : And, 2. In fomething Pofitive. They are ungodly Lufrs, and they are worldly Lufrs ; they are called both ; The one exprelfeth the privative part, theother the pofitive.
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