A Golden Chain

To proceed, the combat in the will is this. The will partly willeth & partly nilleth that which is good at the same instant: and so likewise it willeth and nilleth that which is evil: because it is partly regenerate and partly unregenerate. The affections likewise, which are placed in the will, partly embrace and partly eschew their objects: as love partly loveth, and partly doth not love God and things to be loved: fear is mixed and not pure (as schoolmen have dreamed) but partly filial, partly servile, causing the child of God to stand in awe of God, not only for his mercies, but also for his judgements & punishments. The will of a man regenerate is like him that hath one leg sound, the other lame: who in every steppe which he makes, doth not wholly halt, or wholly go upright, but partly go upright and partly halt. Or like a man in a boat on the water: who goeth upward because he is carried upward by the vessel: and at the same time goes downward, because he walks downward in the same vessel at the same instant. If any shall say, that contraries can not be in the same subject: the answer is, they can not, if one of them be in his full strength ^ain the highest degree: but if the force of them both be delayed and weakened, they may be joined together.

To proceede, the combat in the will is this. The will partly willeth & partly nilleth that which is good at the same instant: and so likewise it willeth and nilleth that which is euill: because it is partly regenerate and partly vnregenerate. The affections likewise, which are placed in the will, partly imbrace and partly eschew their obiects: as loue partly loueth, and partly doth not loue God and things to be loued: feare is mixed and not pure (as schoolemen haue dreamed) but partly filial, partly seruil, causing the child of God to stand in awe of God, not onely for his mercies, but also for his iudgements & punishments. The will of a man regenerate is like him that hath one legge sound, the other lame: who in euery steppe which he makes, doth not wholly halt, or wholly goe vpright, but partly goe vpright and partly halt. Or like a man in a boate on the water: who goeth vpward because he is carried vpward by the vessell: and at the same time goes downeward, because he walkes downeward in the same vessell at the same instant. If any shall say, that contraries can not be in the same subiect: the answer is, they can not, if one of them be in his full strength ^a