The Marini ofMort cations: thebodie : thus muchof thewordmember. Seeondly,what is meant byearthly members?$yearth- s ly members is ment al earthlyaffeLions as immoderate what isment cares, inordinare lulls ; or it is a depraveddifpofition mcebehsr ofthe foule, wherby it is drawn fromheavenly things toearthly ; thatis,it is drawn from a highvaluingof heavenly things toa bafe efieemeofthem, and from a bafeeffeemingof earthly things untoa high efleeme ofthem; this is earthlymindedneffe. But for the bet- ter explainingofthispoint ; firft, wewill thewwhat it isto beeearthly minded : fecondly, what.it isto be heavenly minded. For the firff,what it istobe earthlyminded : It is to what it is t mind earthly things, or heavenly things in anearthly be eatch'1 manner ; thatis,when thefoule isdepraved fooffpi- rituall life thatit lookes upongraceand falvationwith a-carnalleye,when it is reprefented unto it;becaufe it is but naturall,it is not cnlightned by theSpirit ; now till amanbeeniightnedby theSpirit,he cannot fee fpi- rituall things in afpirituall manners Howfoever, I grantthat by the light ofnature, a manbeing endued rrl witha reafonable foule,thereby maycome todifcerne offpirituall timings, yet fo asbut byacommon illumi- nationofthe Spirit, as we call_it-; notas they are,but onelyas he conceivesof them byhis naturali reafoa For firff, bynature aman mayconceive of fpirituall things, but notfpiritually; fornature 'cangoc nofur- therthannature now what is competible and agree- able tonature he hatha tafteof,he fees things fofarre as theyarefutableunto his nature ; but nature can looke no further ; for this is the propertieof nature, it goes all by the outward fenfeand appetite ; . and no G 3 mats 4$
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