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Of Man''i Original Rightcoufnefs. 23
another way ; their will has got a fet and a bias quite
contrary to that law; and therefore, the expreiiion
fuirable to the prefent purpofe, mufi needs import,
befides thele notions of tlie mind, inclinations, of the
will going along therewith ; which inclinations, though
mixed with corruption in the regenerate, were pure
and unmixed in upright Adam. In a word, as Adam
knew his mailer’s pleafure in the matter of duty, to his
will flood inclined to what he knew.
Tkhdly, His affedlions were orderly, pure and holy ;
which is a neceiTary part of that uprightnefs where¬
in man was created. The Apoftle has a petition,
2 Iheth iii, 5. The Lord direct your hearts unto the
love of God : that is, The Lord Jiraighten your hearts^
or make them lie flraight to the love of God : and our
text tells us, man was thus made flraight, The neusman
is created in righteoufnefs and true hoi 'mefs. Eph. iv. 24.
Now this holinefs as it is diftinguifhed from righteouf¬
nefs, may import the purity and orderlinefs of the af-
fcdlions. And thus the apoflle, 1 Tim. ii. 8 will
have men to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath
and doubting : becaufe, as troubled water is unfit to
receive the image of the fun ; fo the heart, filled with
impure and diforderly aflcaftions, is not fit for divine
communications. Man’s fenfitive appetite v'as indeed
naturally carried out towards objedls grateful to the
fenfes. For feeing man was made up of body and foul,
and God made this man to glorify and enjoy him ; and
for this end to ufe his good creatures in fubordination
to himfelf: it is plain that man was naturally inclined
both to fpiritual and fenfible good : yet to fpiritual
good, the chief good as his ultimate end. And there¬
fore his fenfitive motions and inclinations, w-ere fub-
erdinate to his reafon and will, which lay flraight with
the will of God, and were not, in the leafl contrary to
the fame. Otherwife he fliould have been made up of
contradictions ; his foul being naturally inclined to God
2$ the chief end, in the fuperior part thereof; and the
fame foul inclined to the creature as the chief end in
the inferior part thereof, as they call it: which is