Chapter IX. How the reasonable part of the Soul being now vexed and afflicted, is convinced of the vainly presumed facility, and confounded at the difficulty of this matter

So now meer vexation gives understanding to reason; now at length the difficulty of this business is in some measure made known, now the presumed facility is vanished. For it sees the memory is full of unclean filth, and it sees other and other ordures in great abundance flowing in; it sees the windows which are open to death can by no means be shut, and that the over-ruling languid will still commands all, notwithstanding all the putrid corruption did flow out of her Ulcers. In fine, the Soul sees it self defiled, and this not by another, but by its own body, nor from any other than it self. But as there is something of the Soul, to wit, the memory which is infected, so the will is that which infects. Finally, the whole Soul is nothing else but Reason, Memory and Will. But now even Reason also is found defective, and in a certain manner blind, for that it has not all this while seen these things, and absolutely infirm; for that when the matter was discovered, it could not prevail to temper and reduce all to order; the Memory most foul and noysom, the Will languid, all over full of horrid Ulcers. And least of all the things appertaining to a man, there should remain something untouch'd; even the Body is become rebellious, and all the members so many windows, by which death enters into the Soul, and without ceasing the confusion encreases more and more.