Chap.XI. OF MAMS SOVLE. 



Po:ad venture, what Ihavcfaid, may bee ly able to ami. 

 Sfakc ; as chough I conceived that thcfe Spiritual! judgments 

 are made in the ibuie according to right rea/bn, and to legiti- 

 mat diicour/e : wnercas,! meane nothing leflc j bat eStcem- 

 ing an overitrong judgement in the Operated Sbuie,tobcpro- 

 portionaWe onto a paflion in the body; Iconceitcthat as 

 paffion ietteth reafon on work to findeout meancs , whereby 

 ihce may arrive unto her ends; fo in like manner, may this 

 judgment . ft realbn on floate, with thofe ads which follow 

 consequently upon it (though inconsequent to thewhote 

 body of reafon . ) becaufe the disorder thereby, in the cxcefle 

 et this judgment-over others, whofe force (According to na- 

 ture) ought to be greater than it. So that, if we would frame 

 a conception of a disordered foule,when it is out of the body ; 

 wee may imagine it correspondent to a body, whofe one part 

 were bigger then could ftand in proportion with an other, as, 

 if the hand (to uie the example wee brought before) were 

 greater than the arme could manage, or the foote were larger 

 and heavyer, then the leg and thigh could wield : nnto which 

 adde that every part were active and working of it felfe : fo as, 

 though it could not bee governed, yet would it continually 

 have its owne operation, which would'bee contrary to the o- 

 peration of the arme, or of the legge, and consequently, it 

 would ever bee tending to incompoSTible operations : and by 

 chat meanes^ both one member would alwayes disagree from 

 the other, and neither of them atraine any effect at all ; nnc 

 unlike to the fanfie of the Poets, who fained a monfter,which 

 they termed ScytU, wiiole inferiour parts, were a company of 

 dogget, ever Snarling and quarrailing among themfelves;and 

 yet were unSeverable from ore a other, as being comparte* 

 of the fame iubSiance. 



But to declare this important doftrine more dogmatical- 

 ly ; let us coniider that of neceSTity a difordcred Sbule hath 

 thefe following judgments fetled-in her. Namely, that fhee 

 is npt well ; that fhce cannot bee well without her defired 

 g ood ; that it is impoSTible for her to compafle that good ; 

 and laftly, that this ftate (lie is in, is by all meanes poSTible to 

 k avpyded - y not , by changing ber judgment (for that is her 



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