/46 Ob' SPÌRÌTrU11L 14ÌÌNDRDNRSSi poisonous; but being corrected, and receiving a due temperament, from a mixture of other ingredients, be- come medicinal, and of excellent use. First. By nature, our affections all of them, are de prayed and corrupted. Nothing in the whole nature of man, no power or faculty of the soul, is fallen under greater disorder and depravation by the entrance of sin, than our affections are. In and by them is the heart wholly gone and turned off from God. Tit. iii. 3. It were a long work to set forth this depravation of our affections, nor doth it belong to our present design. Some few things I shall briefly observe con- cerning it, to make way for what is proposed concern- ing their change. First. This is the only corruption and depravation of our nature by the fall, evident in and to reason, or the light of nature itself. Those who were wise among the heathen, both saw it and complained of it. They found a weakness in the mind, but saw nothing of its darkness and depravation as unto things spiritual. But they were sensible of this disorder and tumult of the affections in things moral, which renders theminds of men like a troubled sea, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. This greatly aggravates the neglect of them who are not sensible of it in themselves, seeing it is discernible in the light of nature. Secondly. They are as depraved, the seat and sub. ject of all lusts, both of the flesh and of the spirit Yea, lust or evil concupiscence, is nothing but the it regular motion and acting of our affections, as deprav ed, defiled, corrupted. Rome vii. 9. Hence, no ona sin can be mortified without a change wrought in the affections. Thirdly. They are the spring, root, and cause of
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