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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
because there is no impediment in his will to the commission of it, but only in the outward circumstances. Nay though it be a mere Ens intentional, or rationis, which is the object of the thought, yet the act of the mind is real, and as significant of the inclination of the Soul, as if the object were real too: As if a man hath an unclean motion at the sight of a picture, which is only a composition of well mixed and well ordered colours: or at the appearance of the Idea of a beauty framed in his own fancy: 'tis as much uncleanness as if it were terminated in some suitable object, the hinderance being not in the will, but in the insufficiency of the object to concur in such an act. Now as the more delight there is in any holy service, the more precious it is in it self, and more grateful to God: so the more pleasure there is in any sinful motion, the more malignity there is in it.
because there is no impediment in his will to the commission of it, but only in the outward circumstances. Nay though it be a mere Ens intentionale, or rationis, which is the object of the thought, yet the act of the mind is real, and as significant of the inclination of the Soul, as if the object were real too: As if a man hath an unclean motion at the sight of a picture, which is only a composition of well mixed and well ordered colours: or at the appearance of the Idea of a beauty fram'd in his own phancy: 'tis as much uncleanness as if it were terminated in some suitable object, the hinderance being not in the will, but in the insufficiency of the object to concur in such an act. Now as the more delight there is in any holy service, the more precious it is in it self, and more grateful to God: so the more pleasure there is in any sinful motion, the more malignity there is in it.
2. Contrivance. When the delight in the thought grows up to the contrivance of the act, (which is still the work of the thinking faculty:) When the mind doth brood upon a sinful motion, to hatch it up, and invents methods for performance: which the wise man calls artificial Inventions. So a learned man interprets [Greek or Hebrew],