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A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties
A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helps enabling & the reasons persuading unto it the impediments hindering the practise of it, and the best means to remove them whereunto are added divers prayers and a treatise of carnal security by John Douname Bachelor in Divinity and minister of Gods Word.A guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helpes inabling & the reasons parswading vnto it ye impediments hindering ye practise of it, and the best meanes to remoue them whereunto are added diuers prayers and a treatise of carnall securitie by Iohn Douname Batcheler in Diuinitie and minister of Gods Word.
London: printed by Felix Kingstone and William Stansby for Ed, 1622
Book 2 › Chapter 13 › Section 10: §. Sect. 10 Of the Spirit lusting against the flesh.
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§. Sect. 10 Of the Spirit lusting against the flesh.
The spiritual concupiscence here required containeth the good motions of the Spirit, and the lusting of the Spirit against the flesh. The good motions of the Spirit, are righteous & charitable cogitations in our minds concerning our neighbours, and like affections in our hearts towards them, which are to be embraced and nourished in us; and contrariwise, evil thoughts are to be shunned, which either are cast into mens minds by the devil, and are called his suggestions; or arise from original corruption and habitual concupiscence; and both of them either sleeping or waking. The lusting of the Spirit against the flesh, whereby we 1fight against our corruptions, and crucify the flesh with the lusts thereof, is here also commanded, and to be entertained and embraced of us. Of which I have written more fully in another *Treatise.
The spirituall concupiscence here required containeth the good motions of the Spirit, and the lusting of the Spirit against the flesh. The good motions of the Spirit, are righteous & charitable cogitations in our mindes concerning our neighbours, and like affections in our hearts towards them, which are to be imbraced and nourished in vs; and contrariwise, euill thoughts are to be shunned, which either are cast into mens mindes by the diuell, and are called his suggestions; or arise from originall corruption and habituall concupiscence; and both of them either sleeping or waking. The lusting of the Spirit against the flesh, whereby we