The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

3. As for the Affections, there's nothing ⟨p. 359⟩but monstrous Ataxy in them. Love in a Natural Man dotes upon abomination, and Hatred breaks out against goodness it self; Hope hangs upon a broken reed, and Fear starts and trembles at its fellow-mortal; Joy triumphs in the pleasures of sin, and therein virtually sports it self with the flames of Hell; and Sorrow which should wait upon Sin pours out it self over worldly Crosses: all the Affections are out of frame and place. At first they were born Subjects to the Kingdom of Reason, but the Rational Faculties (which are the man) rebelling against God in the first Adam, the Affections (which are the brutal part) mutin and rise up in Arms against Reason, and by an unnatural violence depose it; and so unman the man. Hence he becomes [Greek or Hebrew], as the unreasonable beasts that perish. What Asaph was in his Envy at the foolish, that is every man in his inordinate Affections; he is [Greek or Hebrew] a great beast before God, Psal. 73. 22. Here Dinah, that is, the judgement is deflowered by the Son of Chamor, that is, an Ass (as his Name imports.) A generation of brutish Lusts ravish the Soul. Here are the [Greek or Hebrew], the vile Affections, which debase the Immortal Soul to the dust of ⟨p. 360⟩the Earth. Here the [Greek or Hebrew] Dii Stercorei, those dungy Gods of sensual Lusts, carnal Profits, and worldly Honours ascend up into the heart, and as Gods assume the throne of it, command the power of it, and by a kind of omnipresence fill the whole circumference thereof. Here is the troubled sea of passions and affections, where Satan the great Leviathan raises up the winds and waves of all inordinate motions, making the heart boil as a pot, and sporting himself in the sinful tossings thereof.

3. As for the Affections, there's nothing ⟨p. 359⟩but monstrous Ataxy in them. Love in a Natural Man dotes upon abomination, and Hatred breaks out against goodness it self; Hope hangs upon a broken reed, and Fear starts and trembles at its fellow-mortal; Joy triumphs in the pleasures of sin, and therein virtually sports it self with the flames of Hell; and Sorrow which should wait upon Sin pours out it self over worldly Crosses: all the Affections are out of frame and place. At first they were born Subjects to the Kingdom of Reason, but the Rational Faculties (which are the man) rebelling against God in the first Adam, the Affections (which are the brutal part) mutin and rise up in Arms against Reason, and by an unnatural violence depose it; and so unman the man. Hence he becomes , as the unreasonable beasts that perish. What Asaph was in his Envy at the foolish, that is every man in his inordinate Affections; he is a great beast before God,