A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

The last place is, 1 Thess. 4. 5. where the Apostle showing, God hath called us to holiness, he addeth [Greek or Hebrew], not in the lust, or affection of concupiscence; Here it seemeth to be taken strictly for those lustful affections, which flow from the sinful concupiscence in a man; But if the Scripture doth use the word differently to Philosophers, to be sure the thing it self is acknowledged, as appeareth by my Text, where we have a Command directing of us about the Object we are to place them upon, and that is set down, First, Affirmatively, and then Negatively. The Directive Duty is in that expression, [Greek or Hebrew], Set not your affections, we render it in the margin, or mind; so that the Greek word doth signify the acts of the mind, but not them only, it comprehendeth also the affectionate part of a man; It includeth the mind and affections also, because commonly the intense actings of the mind excite and stir up proportionably the intense actions of the affections: Therefore it's sometimes translated savouring, Matth. 16. 23. So Rom. 8. the [Greek or Hebrew], doth not only comprehend the mind, but chiefly the affectionate workings of the flesh against the Spirit of God.

The last place is, 1 Thess. 4. 5. where the Apostle shewing, God hath called us to holinesse, he addeth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, not in the lust, or affection of concupiscence; Here it seemeth to be taken strictly for those lustfull affections, which flow from the sinfull concupiscence in a man; But if the Scripture doth use the word differently to Philosophers, to be sure the thing it self is acknowledged, as appeareth by my Text, where we have a Command directing of us about the Object we are to place them upon, and that is set down, First, Affirmatively, and then Negatively. The Directive Duty is in that expression, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Set not your affections, we render it in the margin, or mind; so that the Greek word doth signifie the acts of the mind, but not them onely, it comprehendeth also the affectionate part of a man; It includeth the mind and affections also, because commonly the intense actings of the mind excite and stirre up proportionably the intense actions of the affections: Therefore it's sometimes translated savouring,