Spiritual physic to cure the diseases of the soul, arising from superfluity of choler,…Spiritual physicke to cure the diseases of the soule, arising from superfluitie of choller,…

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The miserable ruins of our excellent state by creation which were the lamentable effects following the sin of our first parents: and the foul spots of original corruption, which like a contagious leprosy derived from them, have infected all their posterity, do not so evidently appear in any part of the body or foul as in the affections, which are so corrupted and disordered that there scarce remain any small relics of their created purity. And hence it is that the Heathen Philosophers though they did ⟨image 6⟩not perceive how much the bright shining beams of our reason, and the understanding part of the soul, were dimmed and darkened with the foggy mists of original sin, but highly extolled with over partial praises, the excellency and perfection of them, yet they plainly discerned the great corruption of our disordered affections in so much that some of them being overswayed with too great vehemency of affection in speaking against the affections have condemned them as simply, and in their own nature evil, and therefore wholly to be abandoned, seeing there was no hope they should be amended: others with a more judicial insight discerning between the things themselves & their corruption, have written whole tractates for the reforming of them, esteeming the chief top and perfection of wisdom to consist in the well governing and ordering of these disordered and tumultuous passions.

THe miserable ruines of our excellent state by creation which were the lamentable effects following the sinne of our first parents: and the fowle spots of originall corruption, which like a contagious leprosie deriued from thē, haue infected all their posteritie, do not so euidently appeare in any part of the body or foule as in the affectiōs, which are so corrupted and disordered that there scarce remaine any small reliques of their created puritie. And hence it is that the Heathen Philosophers though they did ⟨image 6⟩not perceiue how much the bright shining beames of our reason, and the vnderstāding part of the soule, were dimmed and darkned with the foggie mists of originall sinne, but highly extolled with ouer parciall prayses, the excellencie and perfection of them, yet they playnely discerned the great corruption of our disordered affections in so much that some of them being ouerswayed with too great vehemencie of affection in speaking agaynst the affections haue condemned them as simply, and in their owne nature euill, and therfore wholy to be abandoned, seeing there was no hope they should be amended: others with a more iudiciall insight discerning betweene the things themselues & their corruption, haue written whole tractates for the reforming of them, esteeming the chiefe top and perfection of wisdom to consist in the well gouerning and ordering of these disordered and tumultuous passions.