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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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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.
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 rejoyce 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.
Quest. But how and in what respect are we to set our affections on things above, and not on things here below? What may we not at all affect the things of this life?