A29369:114
Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons
Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons ... by that learned and judicious divine, Mr. William Bridge ...
London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior ..., 1673
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they are in a special manner for to mind the same, and to savour them, and they are to have their conversation in heaven, their Treasure is there, and therefore there is their heart to be, and where our heart is, there our affections will be; for affections are the issues of the heart, as a mans heart is, so he affects, and as he affects so his heart is. I know it is usual with Philosophers and Divines,1 to place their affections in part sensitiva; but if we look into them, we shall find that Affections in the general are these moving of the rational soul, whereby the heart is sensibly carried out upon good or evil; so as to embrace the one, or refuse the other. I s•y, they are,
they are in a special manner for to mind the same, and to savour them, and they are to have their conversation in heaven, their Treasure is there, and therefore there is their he•rt to be, and where our heart is, there our affections will be; for affections are the issues of the heart, as a mans heart is, so he affects, and as he affects so his heart is. I know it is usual with Philosophers and Divines,1 to place their affections in parte sensitiva; but if we look into them, we shall find that Affections in the general are these moving of the rational soul, whereby the heart is •ensibly carried out upon good or evil; so as to embrace the one, or refuse the other. I s•y, they are,
- 1Explication
1. The movings or motions of the reasonable soul, ye shall observe therefore, that when Jerusalem was much affected with the tidings of Christs birth, it is said all Jerusalem was moved? And when the Jews were affected with envy against Paul and the brethren, it is said they were moved with envy, why? but because affection is the motion or moving of the soul of man.