Petrus van Mastricht, A Treatise on Regeneration (p. 25) Nor is the spiritual life in regeneration bestowed only upon the superior faculties of the soul, the understanding and will, but also upon the inferior or sensitive faculties: the affections, senses, and even the members of the body. Hence the apostle expressly ascribes sanctification not only to the […]
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There is an oft-cited explanation that Edwards gives toward the beginning of Religious Affections. The affections and passions are frequently spoken of as the same; and yet in the more common use of speech, there is in some respect a difference; and affection is a word that in its ordinary signification, seems to be something
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Complicated Psychology of Augustine, City of God, XIV.9: Yes. “But so long as we wear the infirmity of this life, we are rather worse men than better if we have none of these emotions at all. For the apostle vituperated and abominated some who, as he said, were “without natural affection. ” [713] The
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