The Soul's Conflict with Itself

§. 2.

Therefore it is so far, that concupiscence should be natural, that the contrary to it, namely, Righteousness, wherein Adam was created, was natural to him; though it were planted in mans nature by God, and so in regard ⟨p. 156⟩of the cause of it, was supernatural, yet because it was agreeable to that happy condition, without which he could not subsist, in that respect i• was natural, and should have been derived (if he had stood) together with his nature, to his posterity. As hear i• the air, though it hath its first impression from the heat of the Sun, yet is natural, because it agreeth […] the nature of that element: and though man be compounded of a spiritual and earthly substance, yet it is natural that the baser earthly part should be subject to the Superior, because where th• is different degrees of worthiness, it is fit there should be a subordination of the meaner to that which is in ord• higher. The body naturally de• food and bodily contentments, yet i• a man endued with reason, this desire i• governed so as it becomes not inor• nate: A beast sins not in its appeth because it hath no power above to order it. A man that lives in a soli• place far remote from company, may take his liberty to live as it pleas• ⟨p. 157⟩him; but if he comes to live under the government of some well ordered City; then he is bound to submit to the •wes, and customs of that City, under penalty, upon any breach of order: So the risings of the soul, howsoever in other creatures they are not blameable, having no commander in themselves above them, yet in man they are to be ordered by reason and judgement.