Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…

1. First, That it is very usual for natural affections to be raised by a natural temper, as by drinking, eating, noveltinesse of the Gospel, John's candle flies were ravished with the Gospel: People are naturally moved sometimes by a thundering Minister, yet never a whit the more grace, &c. and it is a good speech of Doctor Ames: Arminian universal grace (as they describe it) may be the effect of a good dinner sometimes.

1. First, That it is very usuall for naturall affections to be raised by a naturall temper, as by drinking, eating, noveltinesse of the Gospel, Iohn's candle flies were ravished with the Gospel: People are naturally moved sometimes by a thundering Minister, yet never a whit the more grace, &c. and it is a good speech of Doctor Ames: Arminian universall grace (as they describe it) may be the effect of a good dinner sometimes.

2. That though the being of grace depends not upon the temper of the body, yet the exercise of grace, and many gifts of grace, together with the feeling of it doth. And hence a good dinner, and sometimes wine to a sad melancholy (if gracious) heart may remove rem prohibentem that may keep grace, as joy and thankfulness from working, and so take the grace and draw it out, not create and diffuse the grace: The Prophet called (you know) for a Minstrel, which some think, (and that upon good grounds) was to raise up his heavy heart, and make him cheerful and fit to speak, the body is the instrument, which if it be broken, the best grace will hardly sound, but if whole, then they will.

2. That though the being of grace depends not upon the temper of the body, yet the exercise of grace, and many gifts of grace, together with the feeling of it doth. And hence a good dinner, and sometimes wine to a sad melancholy (if gracious) heart may remove rem prohibentem that may keepe grace, as joy and thankefullnesse from working, and so take the grace and draw it out, not create and diffuse the grace: The Prophet called (you know) for a Minstril, which some thinke, (and that upon good grounds) was to raise up his heavy heart, and make him chearfull and fit to speake, the body is the instrument, which if it be broken, the best grace will hardly sound, but if whole, then they will.