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3. —1. By using, in, and upon, these the affective part of of your Soul,* 1.1 and indulging your passions; whereby your spirit, may as it were burst out, and extend, and stretch it self (towards its Creator, and the several ends of its crea∣tion, and towards the renouncing of all things opposite) in
such acts as these (according to the object;) humility, fear, shame, sorrow, indignation, revenge, confession, aversation, detestation, contempt, abjuration, deprecation, &c: Or, ad∣miration, love, desire, beseeching, joy, election, aspiration, em∣bracing, promising, imitation, hope, confidence, praise, thanks∣giving, resignation, union, tenderness, pity, compassion, zeal, tears, &c.
2. For these observing this general rule; That whenever (tho in the exercise of the understanding, and reasoning) any devout affections, and motions of the heart (infused doubt∣less by that good Spirit, which our Saviour left to dwell in us) arise, you give place to, and indulge, them, and not defer, and throw them off, till you have first finished your discoursings (the end of which is only to excite them). For, though the affections are ordinarily more active after some time of Meditation, and sometimes a many consider∣ations may pass in great coldness without any awakning of them at all; yet there is a time again, when the very first stroke of our thoughts sets them on fire, especially to those, who have been often practised in this exercise.