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The nature and principles of love, as the end of the commandment declared in…
The nature and principles of love, as the end of the commandment declared in some of the last sermons of Mr. Joseph Caryl ; with an epistle prefixed by John Owen ...
London : Printed, and are to be sold by John Hancock, senior and junior ..., 1673
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And sometimes it intends some ⟨p. 45⟩special faculties of the inner man. The understanding is noted by the heart; the will by the heart; the affections by the heart; the conscience by the heart. And in this large sense we are to take the word heart here: only bating the reference of it unto Conscience, which is spoken of as the second distinct spring from whence good actions flow.
The heart then here, is the understanding, the will, the affections. Indeed what ever lies in the bosom of man, you may call his heart. Yet I shall not prosecute the point in this distinctness of these particular faculties of the soul; showing how the understanding is pure, which is by its freedom from error, and clear light in divine truths. How the Will is pure, which is, by its freedom from the bondage, from the obstinacy and rebellion, which doth naturally, wholly possess it: and by having a freedom in choosing good, and refusing that which ⟨p. 46⟩is evil. Nor shall I stay strictly to show what the purity of the affections is; namely, their freedom from all inordinacy and irregularity, either as to the object upon which they are sixth; or as to the measure and degree in which they are sixth upon those objects.
The heart then here, is the understanding, the will, the affections. Indeed what ever lyes in the bosome of man, you may call his heart. Yet I shall not prosecute the point in this distinctness of these particular faculties of the soul; shewing how the understanding is pure, which is by its freedome from error, and clear light in divine truths. How the Will is pure, which is, by its freedom from the bondage, from the obstinacy and rebellion, which doth naturally, wholly possess it: and by having a freedome in choosing good, and refusing that which ⟨p. 46⟩is evil. Nor shall I stay strictly to shew what the purity of the affections is; namely, their freedom from all inordinacy and irregularity, either as to the object upon which they are fixt; or as to the measure and degree in which they are fixt upon those objects.