The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

2. He was deprived of his Dominion and Liberty. The Understanding was so wounded by the violence of the fall, that not only its light is much impaired, but its Power is so weakened as to the lower faculties, that those which according to the order of nature should obey, have cast off its just authority, and usurp the Government. The will hath lost its true Freedom, whereby 'twas enlarged to the extent and amplitude of the Divine Will, in loving whatsoever was pleasing to God, and is contracted to ⟨p. 33⟩mean and base Objects. What a furious disorder is in the Affections? The restraint of Reason to check their violent course, provokes them to swell higher and to be more impetuous, and the more they are gratified, the more insolent and outrageous they grow.

2. He was deprived of his Dominion and Liberty. The Understanding was so wounded by the violence of the fall, that not onely its light is much impaired, but its Power is so weakned as to the lower faculties, that those which according to the order of nature should obey, have cast off its just authority, and usurp the Goverment. The will hath lost its true Freedom, whereby 'twas enlarg'd to the extent and amplitude of the Divine Will, in loving whasoever was pleasing to God, and is contracted to ⟨p. 33⟩mean and base Objects. What a furious disorder is in the Affections? The restraint of Reason to check their violent course, provokes them to swell higher and to be more impetuous, and the more they are gratified, the more insolent and outragious they grow.

The Senses, whose office is to be the Intelligencers of the Soul, to make discovery and to give a naked report without disturbing the higher Faculties, they sometimes mistake disguised enemies for friends▪ and sometimes by a false alarm move the lower Appetites, and fill the Soul with disorder and confusion that the voice of Reason can't be heard. By the irritation of Grief, the insinuation of Pleasure, or some other Perturbation, the Soul is captivated and wounded through the Senses. In short, when Man turned Rebel to God, he became a slave to all the Creatures. By their primitive Institution they were appointed to be subservient to the Glory of God, and the use of Man, to be motives of Love and Obedience to the Creator but Sin hath corrupted and changed them into so many instruments of vice, they are made subject unto vanity: And Man is so far sunk into the dregs of Servitude,