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A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…
A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first Epistle general of John by ... John Cotton ...A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first Epistle generall of John by ... John Cotton ...
London: printed by M.S. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Doct. There is in our corrupt nature not only a love to the world, but also a love to our own lusts.
Love not the world, nor the things of the world, that is, our own Lusts, implying, there is in us by nature a love to the world, and the things of the world, the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eye, and the pride of life.
The lust of the flesh is such a corrupt inclination, whereby our bodies do affect sensual lusts, and sensual objects, as meat and drink, that is, intemperancy, or women, that is Incontinence, or Pastimes and Pleasures; and that is Voluptuousness; and they are called the Lusts of the flesh because our flesh sets us a work to them, what are the lusts of the eye? there is a good eye, a bountiful eye, but an evil eye is called a covetous eye, Pro. 23.6. Deu. 15.7. so then the lusts of the eye is Covetousness, and it is called the lust of the eye, because the eye stirs us up to it; and that is all he hath to behold them, Eccles. 5.10, 11. the very beholding satisfies.
The lust of the flesh is such a corrupt inclination, whereby our bodies do affect sensual lusts, and sensual objects, as meat and drink, that is, intemperancy, or women, that is Incontinencie, or Pastimes and Pleasures; and that is Voluptuousnesse; and they are called the Lusts of the flesh because our flesh sets us a work to them, what are the lusts of the eye? there is a good eye, a bountiful eye, but an evil eye is called a covetous eye,