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First, The Schoolmen ^*have distinguished about sorrows, and that distinction is approved by our Orthodox, Learned and Godly Divines^†.

1. *Aquin. Suppl. q. 3.2.1. Estius Sent. l. 4. p. 1. pag. 236. Valentia. l 4. d. 7. q. 8. p 5.
2. †Ames de Consc. l. 2. c. 8. • 3. Dyke. Repent. p. 46. Burges Rofin. fol p. 4•6.

Sorrow is intellectual, spiritual, or sensitive: Or thus, Sorrow is considered, either as it is in the will, and so it is nothing else but the displeasure and dislike of that which the understanding apprehendeth as evil: Or as it is in the sensitive faculty of the Soul, common with us to the beasts.

As for intellectual, spiritual sorrow, or sorrow as considered in the will, there is no true Child of God but doth sorrow more because of sin, then for outward things; their wills being sanctified abhor sin more then any outward evil; but all do not feel such sensible smarting grief for sin in their sensitive faculty, as they do for divers outward afflictions; the more corporal a thing is, the nearer is it, and more familiar to the sensitive faculty, and so pincheth more there: He that hath the tooth ache in a great degree, hath ten times more sensible grief then he that is in a deep Hectic Fever; but the will dislikes the Hectic Fever, much more then it doth the tooth-ache.