Now the affections of men's minds are imprinted by divers means.
One way is by means of the bodily senses, moved by such things,
pleasant or unpleasant, as are outwardly offered unto them through
sensible worldly things. And this manner of receiving the
impression of affections is common unto men and beasts. Another
manner of receiving affections is by means of reason, which both
ordinately tempereth those affections that the five bodily senses
imprint, and also disposeth a man many times to some spiritual
virtues very contrary to those affections that are fleshly and
sensual. And those reasonable dispositions are spiritual
affections, and proper to the nature of man, and above the nature
of beasts. Now, as our ghostly enemy the devil enforceth himself to
make us lean to the sensual affections and beastly, so doth
almighty God of his goodness by his Holy Spirit inspire us good
motions, with the aid and help of his grace, toward the other
spiritual affections. And by sundry means he instructeth our reason
to lean to them, and not only to receive them as engendered and
planted in our soul, but also in such wise to water them with the
wise advertisement of godly counsel and continual prayer, that they
may become habitually radicated and surely take deep root therein.
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