A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

Before we come to anatomize their evil and sinfulness, let us take notice a little of The Nature of these Affections, And

BEfore we come to anatomize their evil and sinfulness, let us take notice a little of The Nature of these Affections, And

First, You must know that in man (besides his understanding and will, which are either the same with the rational soul, or powers seated in it) there is also a sensitive appetite placed in the body, from whence arise those motions of the soul, which we call affections and passions, such as anger, love, joy, fear and sorrow, &c. It is true indeed, many learned men place affections in the will also, they say, The will hath these affections of joy and sorrow, and so Angels also have, only (they say) these are spiritual and incorporeal, and this must necessarily be acknowledged; But then in men (besides those affections in the will) there are also material ones seated in the sensitive appetite; for man being compounded of soul and body, hereupon it is, that as in his rational part, he doth agree with Angels, so in his sensitive part with the brutes; Therefore in man there are three principles of actions that are internal, his Understanding, Will and Affections, these later are implanted in us only to be servants and helps, but through our corruption they are become tyrants and usurpers over the more noble powers of the soul; so that man is not now as reason, much less as grace, but as affections do predominate. The Scripture (you heard) calleth these affections by the name of the heart, though sometime that comprehendeth the mind and will also. The common Greek word is [Greek or Hebrew], which is rendered passions, and they are so called, because of the effect of them, for when put forth, they make a corporeal transmutation and change in a man: Some make this difference between [Greek or Hebrew] (a word that Quintilian saith, there is no proper Latin expression for, Vide Voss de institut. Orat.) and [Greek or Hebrew], they make passions to be, when in a mild and moderate motion of the soul without any violence or excess, and [Greek or Hebrew], when they are turbulent and troublesome, but [Greek or Hebrew] doth rather signify the manners of men, then their affections. These passions have several names, sometimes they are called perturbations, but that is most properly, when they have cast off the dominion of reason; Sometimes the motions and commotions of the soul; sometimes passions, which expression is disliked by some;