Sect. 2.
[But, saith he, neither of us accuse nature in it, the desires, and other passions of man are in themselves no sins, no more are the actions which proceed from those desires, till they know a Law that forbids them, which, till lawes be made, they cannot know: nor can any Law be made till they have agreed upon the person that shall make it.] Thus he; we agree both,* 1.1 that the passions are not sins, nor the acts proceeding out of them; men may love, hate, feare, hope, &c. but the misapplication of the act to the wrong objects, to love that we should hate, or hate what we should love; or to mistake the degrees, over-love that which is lesse lovely, or lesse love that which is more lovely, and the like, this is it make's a sin; now the frame and constitu∣tion of the Objects of our passions is either such by Di∣vine Institution,* 1.2 or humane; by divine, that is, the ami∣ableness and fitness things have to man by that gift of God in nature, or else in the positive law of God, in the book of God: That which is by Humane institution, is that which humane lawes make desirable or hateful; of the first sort are these combinations of Parents and Children, of Brethren one amongst another; yea of men in general as men, for men are all made with natural abilities to doe one another good; of the second sort are Sacraments, and all such rites, which, having no force in their natural constitution, receive a great loveliness and sweetness, from the Covenants of God to us in them; of the last sort are all our proprieties, as goods, and such things, which by neither God in nature, not his written book, are appropriated to us, but are only given us by the law of the Land wherein we live.