Lastly, Here is the consequent and issue of this Combat, So that the things ye would not, those ye do; which words are subject to many interpretations: Some say, they are only to be interpreted as the end to which these contrary principles do incline, not that they do denote the event. By the flesh we are carried out to this end, not to do the good things we would do; yet this event doth not always at least follow, because Gods Spirit worketh in us both to will and to do; This exposition they are the more confirmed in, because in the Greek it is not [Greek or Hebrew], which would denote the event, but [Greek or Hebrew]: This seemeth to have no great strength, for [Greek or Hebrew] is taken eventually sometimes. But then if so, ⟨p. 476⟩still there is a difference among▪ Interpreters: Some understand it of the good will only, as if the meaning were those good things you would do, the flesh doth hinder and retard you therein. Grotius with others that follow him, understand it of the evil will, in this manner, The Spirit lusteth against the flesh, so that those evil things, which otherwise you would do, if the flesh did prevail in you, now ye cannot do. And the late Writer (Unum Necessarium, cap. 7. pag. 482.) is so peremptory for this Exposition, That (he saith) we cannot make it sense else with what had gone before: (being beholding to Arminius for this Argument) For the Apostle bid us, Walk in the Spirit, so we should not fulfil the lusts of the flesh; and this is the reason, Because the Spirit lusteth against the flesh, and so we cannot do what that would have us; whereas if by the flesh we were hindered from what the Spirit would have us do, this would directly contradict what he had said before.
Lastly, Here is the consequent and issue of this Combate, So that the things ye would not, those ye do; which words are subject to many interpretations: Some say, they are only to be interpreted as the end to which these contrary principles do encline, not that they do denote the event. By the flesh we are carried out to this end, not to do the good things we would do; yet this event doth not alwayes at least follow, because Gods Spirit worketh in us both to will and to do; This exposition they are the more confirmed in, because in the Greek it is not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which would denote the event, but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: This seemeth to have no great strength, for 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is taken eventually sometimes. But then if so, ⟨p. 476⟩still there is a difference among▪ Interpreters: Some understand it of the good will only, as if the meaning were those good things you would do, the flesh doth hinder and retard you therein. Grotius with others that follow him, understand it of the evil will, in this manner, The Spirit lusteth against the flesh, so that those evil things, which otherwise you would doe, if the flesh did prevail in you, now ye cannot do. And the late Writer (Vnum Necessarium, cap. 7. pag. 482.) is so peremptory for this Exposition, That (he saith) we cannot make it sense else with what had gone before: (being beholding to Arminius for this Argument) For the Apostle bid us, Walk in the Spirit, so we should not fulfill the lusts of the flesh; and this is the reason, Because the Spirit lusteth against the flesh, and so we cannot do what that would have us; whereas if by the flesh we were hindred from what the Spirit would have us do, this would directly contradict what he had said before.
