A Body of Practical Divinity

3. The Will. Contumacy, it is the Seat of Rebellion: the sinner crosseth God's will to fulfil his own, Jer. 44.17. We will burn Incense to the Queen of Heaven. There is a rooted enmity in the will against Holiness; it is like an Iron sinew, it refuseth to bend to God. Where is then the freedom of the will? when it is so full, not only of indisposition, but opposition to what is Spiritual.

3. The Will. Contumacy, it is the Seat of Rebellion: the sinner crosseth God's will to fulfil his own, Ier. 44.17. We will burn Incense to the Queen of Heaven. There is a rooted enmity in the will against Holiness; it is like an Iron sinew, it refuseth to bend to God. Where is then the freedom of the will? when it is so full, not only of indisposition, but opposition to what is Spiritual.

4. The Affections. These, as the strings of a Viol, are out of tune. These are the lesser Wheels, which are strongly carried by the will, the Master-wheel. Our Affections are misplaced, set on wrong Objects: our Love is set on Sin, our Joy on the Creature. Our Affections are naturally as a sick man's Appetite, he desires things which are noxious and hurtful for him; he calls for Wine in a Fever; so we have impure Lustings instead of holy Longings.

2. The adherency of Original sin. It cleaves to us as blackness to the skin of the Ethiopian, we cannot get rid of it. Paul shook off the Viper on his hand, but we cannot shake off this inbred Corruption: it may be compared to a wild Fig-tree growing on a Wall, though the Roots of it are pulled up, yet there are some strings of it in the joints of the Stone-work, which will not be eradicated, but will sprout