All his Affections moved only and constantly towards right and commanded objects, and that with perfection of regularity in all their motions▪ His Memory was of strong retention, neither knew he, while he remained such, what it was •o forget any thing that was suitable, and incumbent for him to remember: His Conscience was in excellent case •o reflect, and there being no ground for any challenge, reproof, or […], it did only commend and applaud▪ in a word, it did most faithfully and exactly act the part of God's Deputy, following his orders punctually and precisely, and so was kept in an indisturbed calm, and perfectly serene tranquillity: The Members of his body were servants only to righteousness, and with holy alacrity, sub•erued the soul in all its operations; But, ah! the entering in of cursed sin, made a sad, sorrowful and stupendous Catastrophe, setting o• fire as it were the whole co•e of nature, and putting its very foundations some way out of course, and deplorably defacing the curious stately, magnificent, beautiful and glorious Fabric of this little […] Man; quite vitiating and corrupting all the faculties, powers and parts of his soul and body, which by the exact and exquisite symmetry ⟨image 4⟩and harmony thereof, through the image of God concreated with him, made him, while it remained in its integrity, incapable of all such motions, or actions, which should be subservient unto, or compliant with any thing contrary unto, or different from it: His Understanding, the leading faculty, and the eye (as it were) of the soul, became an abyss and dungeon of darkness, covered all over with fogs, mists and clouds of ignorance, errors and mistakes, so that becoming of a spiritual and holy man, a carnal and corrupt man, He did not receive, neither could he know savingly the things of God, he became quite blind, having loosed his vi•ive faculty, as to all spiritual discerning: His Will the ruling and governing faculty, utterly loosed its rectitude, and became crooked, froward, perverse, rebellious and obstinate, strongly inclined and bent to evil, to all evil, only to evil, always and constantly to evil, and altogether averse from every thing truly good; willing that which God nilled, and nilling that which he willed:
All his Affections moved only and constantly towards right and commanded objects, and that with perfection of regularity in all their motions▪ His Memory was of strong retention, neither knew he, while he remained such, what it was •o forget any thing that was suitable, and incumbent for him to remember: His Conscience was in excellent case •o reflect, and there being no ground for any challenge, reproof, or 〈…〉, it did only commend and applaud▪ in a word, it did most faithfully and exactly act the part of God's Deputy, following his orders punctually and precisely, and so was keeped in an indisturbed calm, and perfectly serene tranquilli•ie: The Members of his body were servants only to righteousness, and with holy •lacrity, sub•erued the soul in all its operations; But, ah! the entring in of cursed sin, made a sad, sorrowful and stupendious Ca•astrophe, setting o• fire as it were the whole co•e of nature, and putting its very foundations some way out of course, and deplorably de•acing the curious stately, magnificent, beautiful and glorious Fabrick of this little 〈…〉 Man; quite vitia•ing and corrupting all the faculties, powers and parts of his soul and body, which by the exact and exquisit symetrie ⟨image 4⟩and harmonie thereof, through the image of God concreated with him, made him, while it remained in its integrity, incapable of all such motions, or actions, which should be subservient unto, or complyant with any thing contrary unto, or different from it: His Understanding, the leading facultie, and the eye (as it were) of the soul, became an abysse and dungeon of darknesse, covered all over with fogs, mists and clouds of ignorance, errors and mistakes, so that becoming of a spiritual and holy man, a carnal and corrupt man, He did not receive, neither could he know savingly the things of God, he became quite blind, having losed his vi•ive faculty, as to all spiritual discerning: His Will the ruling and governing facultie, utterly losed its rectitude, and became crooked, froward, perverse, rebellious and obstinat, strongly inclined and bent to evil, to all evil, only to evil, alwayes and constantly to evil, and altogether averse from every thing truly good; willing that which God nilled, and nilling that which he willed:
