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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 64
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Therefore we must distinguish of a two-fold desire; there is a Natural Desire, 1and an Elicit Desire. A Natural Desire is that which floweth from the mere principles of Nature, desiring to preserve it self; and this Paul could not but have as he was a man. Even as our Saviour told Peter, He should be bound, and should be carried whether he would not, Joh. 21. 18. that is, according to his natural will, otherwise according to his will as sanctified, did with readiness and joy go to the place of his Martyrdom. An Elicit Desire is that which a man putteth forth according to the principles of reason and grace, so that we may desire one thing with a natural desire, another thing with an elicit. A man that hath a putrefied arm, doth with a natural desire will to continue his arm still in his body, but with an elicit desire following reason, so he willeth to cut it off: And thus Paul did with an elicit desire, so he willed Heaven and being with Christ, rather than to continue in the flesh.
Therefore we must distinguish of a two-fold desire; there is a Natural Desire, 1and an Elicite Desire. A Natural Desire is that which floweth from the meer principles of Nature, desiring to preserve it self; and this Paul could not but have as he was a man. Even as our Saviour told Peter, He should be bound, and should be carried whether he would not, Joh. 21. 18. that is, according to his natural will, otherwise according to his will as sanctified, did with readiness and joy go to the place of his Martyrdom. An Elicite Desire is that which a man putteth forth according to the principles of reason and grace, so that we may desire one thing with a natural desire, another thing with an elicite. A man that hath a putrified arm, doth with a natural desire will to continue his arm still in his body, but with an elicite desire following reason, so he willeth to cut it off: And thus Paul did with an elicite desire, so he willed Heaven and being with Christ, rather than to continue in the flesh.
- 1The difference betwixt a natural and an elicit desire.