88· . 'The Churches Cttrrirtge. \ to the difeafe to further life and liberty, but when thou obeyeft thy felfe, thou art brought in bondage to ftnne , which is the difeafe ' Of thy foule. Now bondage properly is this; when one is fubje~ to one that is not our proper Comman.. der, or when it is to our hurts : and thereforr. now to be fubjeet to a father is not bondage, fo nor to God, he being our naturall ,and proper Com– mander. Nowoneof thefe two you muft be fub– ject: to, either the law offtnne , or of righteouf– neffe• .Confider now which of thefe is bondage; which liberty. . , Every creature bath a certaine· tule given it, and fo long as it keepes clofe to that rule, fo long it is well with it: and fo it is with men, whilft · they are fubje6l: to the Law, which is their proper rule; to be fubjetl: to ·the contrary rule , that is bond<'.ge. But' thou ·wilt fay, I finde it a pleafant life, to bee. fubjeCt to my lulls: but what is the rea{on of that? becaufeitis agreeable to the prefent dift>Ofttion of thy foule; but yet know this, that thou haft: another radicail difpo.. lition in thee, in which thou wert created, to which the Comrnandements are more pleafant, then the fatisfying ofthy 1u£h. Asnow take the conftantdifpofition of thy body; meat and drink is pieafant to it,but indeed ina tirneofi.ickneffe, ·not meat, but fomething elfe is more pleafant; yet fo as the plaafantneife of meate to one in IJealth, is the greater o£ the two. Now this is a rule in Philofophie, that thofe things that are agreeable to nature are juvunda per fe : and ali ' times, ·.
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