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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
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2 There are other words which show more enmity, as mortifying; Col. 3.5. there he calls Lusts the members of the body, implying, there is a body of sin; now this mortifying is a metaphor taken from Chirurgeons, who when they would cut off a Member, they mortify it, by binding it, and hindering the recourse of the blood and and spirits, and so benumb it. Secondly, They apply Corrosives to stupefy it, and then cut it off, lest it fret and kill the whole body; so we ought to mortify our lusts, by restraining and binding our hearts from delight in any pleasure, Psal. 119.101. my feet, that is, the inclination of my heart, he had bound up his spirit from them, and restrained it from any fellowship with them.
2 There are other words which shew more enmity, as mortifying; Col. 3.5. there he calls Lusts the members of the body, implying, there is a body of sin; now this mortifying is a metaphor taken from Chirurgions, who when they would cut off a Member, they mortifie it, by binding it, and hindering the recourse of the bloud and and spirits, and so benumb it. Secondly, They apply Corrosives to stupifie it, and then cut it off, lest it fret and kill the whole body; so we ought to mortifie our lusts, by restraining and binding our hearts from delight in any pleasure, Psal. 119.101. my feet, that is, the inclination of my heart, he had bound up his spirit from them, and restrained it from any fellowship with them.
2 As Chirurgeons apply Corrosives, so Christians to mortify their lusts apply such Corrosives may subdue their lusts, Rom. 8.13. If ye walk after the flesh ye shall dye, but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live; either kill your lusts, or else you will kill your souls, therefore mortify your lusts through the Spirit that you may live; which is a notable Corrosive to mortify them by the Spirit of God; so another Corrosive is, when a man applies the threatenings of God to his soul, and against his Lusts; if you shall lay to heart all the dangers of your lusts, it will eat out the corruption of the flesh. Another special Corrosive is the Death of Christ, when we consider Christ dyed for us, and we are dead in him, how then should we live any longer to sin,