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The Lift of GOD
temper the vigorous and heahhful confii–
tution of the fi)ul.
Its
f~culties
had been
formerly enfeebled and difordcred, fo that
they
could not
excrcite
thdr natural
fm~crions
; it had wearied itfdf with end–
lcfs toflings and rollings, and was never
able to find any reft: now, thar diltemper
being removed, it feds itk h . well; there
is a due harmony in irs faculties,
~nd
a
fprighdy vigour poifeffeth every part. The
und \.rfianding eau difcerli what is good,
and
tfy
will can cleave unto it:
the· af–
feCtions are ·not tied to the motions of
fenfe,
and the -influence of external ob–
jeers; but they are ftirred by more divine'
impreffions, are touched by a ft.:nfe of
irt-
vifible things.
·
Let us defcend, if you pleafe,
into a
The
excel-
nearer and more particular view
iency- of
di-
of religion,
in
thofe fcveral
Tine
love.
branches of it ·whi eh were na-
nled before.
Let us confider that love
and
affcCl:ion wherewith holy fouls are
united to 'God, that we may fee what ex–
cellency and felicity is involved in it. Love
is that powerful and prevalent pafficm,
by
which all the faculties and inclinations of
the foul are determin(d, and on which
both
its
perfeCl:ion and happintfs depend.
The worth and excellency of a
foul
is
to
- '· be
;