Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons

2. If your affections be set on things that are above, then may you know that you have an Interest in Christ, and in those things above. Affections are the Pulse of the Soul, if a man be alive, then his Pulse beats, but if his Pulse beats not, then is he Dead. For if your affections beat after things that are above, then are you alive to God; but if this Pulse beats not, then are you dead to God. Every man is as this Pulse is, alive or dead: every man is as his affections are, animus cujusque est quisque, would ye so know whether ye be spiritually alive or dead. How doth this Pulse of your affections beat? I confess indeed, that affectio est meretrix, a man should not measure himself by any present affection, nor by the degrees of his affections, but by the bent of his affections he should, and by the savour of them; though I cannot know Strong water by the colour of it, yet by the taste and savour of it I may; and though I cannot know my Spiritual Estate by the degree of an affection, yet by the savour and bent of ⟨p. 39⟩it I may. Therefore saith the Psalmist. Those that love the Lord hate Evil. By this, saith the Apostle, shall ye know that ye are translated from Death to Life; because ye love the Brethren And if ye look into Scripture, how doth the Lord distinguish the Godly from the Ungodly, but by the kind and bent of their affections? Psal. 5 11. Let them that love thy Name rejoice in thee. Psal. 1. His delight is in the law of the Lord. Psal. 112 1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, and delighteth greatly in his Commandments. If therefore your affections be not drawn out, and set upon things above, how will ye know that ye have any Interest in them? Yea,

2. If your affections be set on things that are above, then may you know that you have an Interest in Christ, and in those things above. Affections are the Pulse of the Soul, if a man be alive, then his Pulse beats, but if his Pulse beats not, then is he Dead. For if your affections beat after things that are above, then are you alive to God; but if this Pulse beats not, then are you dead to God. Every man is as this Pulse is, alive or dead: every man is as his affections are, animus cujusque est quisque, would ye so know whether ye be spiritually alive or dead. How doth this Pulse of your affections beat? I confess indeed, that affectio est meretrix, a man should not measure himself by any present affection, nor by the degrees of his affeions, but by the bent of his affections he should, and by the savour of them; though I cannot know Strong water by the colour of it, yet by the tast and savour of it I may; and though I cannot know my Spiritual Estate by the degree of an affection, yet by the savour and bent of