The third and last Subordination was of the body, both to the rational and sensitive principles; There was a preparedness in the body of Adam, as there was in Christ, whereby he did readily do the Will of God, and sound the body not obstructing or weighing of it down. Now let us consider this three-fold cord, which did bind Adam's whole man unto that which is good, which was easily broken; and then, as when the flood-gates are open, the streams of water violently rush forth, hurrying all away: Thus it is with mankind; This order being dissolved, the whole heart of man is as unruly as the Sea; and whereas that hath its natural bounds, Hitherto it shall go, and no further; The heart of man is boundless, and hath no stops of it self, only the infinite God of Heaven he ruleth and ordereth it as he pleaseth. Consider the first breach, and mourn under that: Is it nothing to have the mind of man, which hath as many thoughts almost as there are sands upon the Sea shore, and yet not to have one of these rise in the soul with subordination to God? What a sad bondage is this, that our thoughts are no more under our command, than the flying birds in the air? Do not either sinful thoughts, or if good, come in so unseasonably upon thee, that they carry away thy soul prisoner? Oh this loss of the obedience of the mind to Gods Law, in all the thoughts thereof, ought to be no mean matter of debasement! Not to find one good thought of all those Iliads, Chiliades and Myriads of thoughts which thou hast, but to have rebellion in them against God: What sad impression should it make on thee? In the will also those motion and incomplete velleities, yea acts of consent in the will, which arise in the soul, as so many swarms of flies in the air, Are not these also so many armies of lusts against God, whereas in the state of integrity, there would not have risen the least distemper?
The third and last Subordination was of the body, both to the rationall and sensitive principles; There was a preparednesse in the body of Adam, as there was in Christ, whereby he did readily do the Will of God, and sound the body not obstructing or weighing of it down. Now let us consider this three-fold cord, which did bind Adam's whole man unto that which is good, which was easily broken; and then, as when the flood-gates are open, the streams of water violently rush forth, hurrying all away: Thus it is with mankind; This order being dissolved, the whole heart of man is as unruly as the Sea; and whereas that hath its natural bounds, Hitherto it shall go, and no further; The heart of man is boundlesse, and hath no stops of it self, only the infinite God of Heaven he ruleth and ordereth it as he pleaseth. Consider the first breach, and mourn under that: Is it nothing to have the mind of man, which hath as many thoughts almost as there are sands upon the Sea shore, and yet not to have one of these rise in the soul with subordination to God? What a sad bondage is this, that our thoughts are no more under our command, than the flying birds in the air? Do not either sinfull thoughts, or if good, come in so unseasonably upon thee, that they carry away thy soul prisoner? Oh this losse of the obedience of the mind to Gods Law, in all the thoughts thereof, ought to be no mean matter of debasement! Not to find one good thought of all those Iliades, Chiliades and Myriades of thoughts which thou hast, but to have rebellion in them against God: What sad impression should it make on thee? In the will also those motion and incompleat velleities, yea acts of consent in the will, which arise in the soul, as so many swarms of flies in the air, Are not these also so many armies of lusts against God, whereas in the state of integrity, there would not have risen the least distemper?
