What are the affections?'The affections are no other, than the more vigorous and sensible exercise of the inclination and will of the soul.'
God has endued the soul with two principal faculties: The one, that by which it is capable of perception and speculation, or by which it discerns and judges of things; which is called the understanding. The other, that by which the soul is some way incline with respect to the things it views or considers: or it is the faculty by which the soul beholds things -not as an indifferent unaffected spectator, but - either as liking or disliking, pleased or displeased, approving or rejecting. This faculty is called by various names: it is sometimes called the inclination; and, as it respects the actions determined and governed by it, the will: and the mind, with regard to the exercises of this faculty, is often called the heart. (p237)
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