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A commentary or exposition, upon the five first chapters of the Epistle to the…A commentarie or exposition, vpon the fiue first chapters of the Epistle to the…
A commentary or exposition, upon the five first chapters of the Epistle to the Galatians: penned by the godly, learned, and judicial divine, Mr. W. Perkins. Now published for the benefit of the Church, and continued with a supplement upon the sixth chapter, by Rafe Cudworth Bachelor of DivinityA commentarie or exposition, vpon the fiue first chapters of the Epistle to the Galatians: penned by the godly, learned, and iudiciall diuine, Mr. W. Perkins. Now published for the benefit of the Church, and continued with a supplement vpon the sixt chapter, by Rafe Cudworth Bachelour of Diuinitie
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1604Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1604
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The grounds of Popish doctrine in this point, are two. The §10first is this. They make three degrees of Concupiscence. The first is, the proneness in the flesh to rebel against the law of the mind, or the pro•esse to evil. The second, stands in the first motions to sin, which go before consent of will. The third, stands in acts of lust joined with consent of will. This third, §15they say, is forbidden in the moral law, which forbids and condemns voluntary concupiscence: and the two first are not. Because (as they speak) concupiscence it self with the first motions are not in mans power: and therefore they are rather to be termed defects or infirmities, then sins: and that men §20are no more to be blamed for them then for the diseases of their bodies. Ans. The doctrine is false: for it is an evident truth that Concupiscence with the first motions thereof to evil, is condemned in the Moral law. It is a Principle in expounding the law: where any actual sin is forbidden, there all causes, occasions, §25& furtherances thereof, are likewise forbidden. Therefore considering actual concupiscence joined with consent, is forbidden in the law, Original concupiscence with the first motions thereof, being causes of the former, are likewise forbidden. And Paul saith, he had not known Lust to be sin, §30unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust. Rom. 7. 7. Now he was a Doctor of the law, and knew that lust with consent was a sin: for thus much the light of nature teacheth: therefore the law speaks of an higher degree of lust, namely, of lust going before consent.
The grounds of Popish doctrine in this point, are two. The §10first is this. They make three degrees of Concupiscence. The first is, the pronesse in the flesh to rebell against the law of the minde, or the pro•esse to euill. The second, stands in the first motions to sinne, which goe before consent of will. The third, stands in acts of lust ioyned with consent of will. This third,