Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons

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.

2. As it is the moving of the soul, so it is that motion of the soul whereby the heart is sensibly carried out upon what is good or evil, for every act or moving of the soul is not an affection, the soul moves towards a thing when it enquires into it, or doth will the same, but every act of the Understanding and Will is not an affection; but when the soul of man doth sensibly ⟨p. 27⟩move, or is sensibly carried out unto good or evil, then it's said to be affected; and therefore saith the Church in the Lamentations, Mine eye affecteth mine heart.

3ly. As the Soul must be sensibly carried out unto what is good or evil, so it must embrace or refuse the same; for affections are of two sorts, Concupiscible and Irascible: by one we follow what is good, and by the other we do shun what is evil; the Lo•d hath placed several affections in the Soul; but all are the Servants and Ministers of Love. I Love a thing, and therefore if it be absent I desire it, if it be present I rejoice and delight in it. If any thing do oppose the thing that • love, then I am angry with it, or do hate the same. So that Love is the great wheel, and as that moves all love, some in a way of embracing, some in a way of refusing. And so you now see what these affections are which we are to set upon things above; They are these motions of the Soul whereby a man is sensibly carried out unto good or evil, so as to embrace or refuse the same.