Of turning from oure1Jill "ftJayes•. mets hang upon wheele.s, and makes them g·oe as we fay, whether they will or no; arnd ·reafonmay be put off and denyed, but nota lhong iodination .of nature, that will not be got off fo eafily. Becaufe it difcovers it felfe (though it be feat. ed in the whole man') and is mofi. operative in the fenfuall part, as on the contrary the law of tkc mind is moll: exercifed in the· iuperior p1rr, rhough itfantbfies the whole man. The meaning is this, it appeares in the faculties of the minde, when they are_fee about any attion that isgbed, and in the relation is called 1he l;,w of. the meml/ers, becaufe it is difcerned in the ufe of the members, as a man that hath the palfie, it lyes,'uodifcerned in the hand ; but when he comes to ufe it, he finds 1 it ; fo the gout, or forenelfe or lamenelfe in the leg, though it be there, yet it is moll: difcerned when a man goes to walke : fuch a lameneffe or . difficulty in our faculties appeares, when we goe . about any thing that is g·ood. · 1 Inthelafi: place, this law ofthe mtmbers is faid to · . rebell againfi: the lAw of the minJ { at1d if we will 1 tonfidedts forces in this warre, we Jball find it dif· · ]. Jficult to r,efift and turne from them. . , . For firfl: there is a Hrong fattion of evill; many I members, Hianylufis, legions of lufis warring; fo , the word. implyes :. it is not a p.ovop."-xr(J,. a fingle . , fight, but of many ; thereis n.ev.er agoodmo~ion ·, comes into the foule, but they give their fufftager1 agaioft it, their voice againfi whatfoever is good; no good intention but they are ready ~o gainefay it; nor doethey meerely f~y it, ~nd tell us t,hey dif· I_ ..Q::._ _like\ 217 2 I i ., t 1 l
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