The spiritual watchThe spirituall vvatch

§. 20. The second sort of special corruptions are the sins of a mans nature, or of his natural constitution, such as he is naturally more addicted and inclined unto then unto other. For as it is with the body, so is it also with the soul. As in every mans body there is a general mixture of all the four humours, Blood, Fleame, and the two Cholers, in some degree more or less, but there is some one of them predominant, in regard whereof a man is said to be of a Sanguine, a Flegmatike, a Melancholic, or a Choleric Constitution: or as in grounds untoiled and untilled there grow evil weeds of all sorts, but there is some one commonly that over-toppeth the residue, and groweth rifer and ranker usually then the rest: So in the soul of man (since the fall of our first Parents ^pa general seed-plot of evil) there are spiritual weeds of all sorts, a mixture of all vice, the seed and spawn of all sin, ^qAtheism it self not excepted: but there is ^rsome one pestilent Humour or other lightly more predominant then the rest, some one main and master vice, that giveth a denomination, in regard whereof men are said to be, some ambitious, some covetous, some superstitious, some lascivious, and the like: not as if such persons had no other vice, but that that they are so named by: for it is most true that the Heathen man saith, ⟨p. 33⟩^sHe that hath any one vice, hath all other with it; but ^tbecause that beareth the sway, though the other be all there too in a lower, and a less eminent degree. This is that which David seemeth to have aimed at when he saith; ^uI was upright also with him, and kept my self from mine own sin, ^xEvery David (saith one well) hath his Bathsheba, and every Bathsheba her David. David had no doubt his sin, ^y