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…

Use 1. To teach us, it is not enough for us to abstain from outward gross sins, but love not your lusts: thou mayest refrain from the outward acts of sin, but yet thy heart may be strongly affected towards sin, and thou mayest delight therein; if thou dost, thou lovest the world, and the things of the world; therefore labour to cleanse your selves from secret lusts. Circumcision was the cutting off the fore-skin of a secret member, and yet God would have another Circumcision more secret, and that is of the heart, we must not content our selves with outward reformation, but circumcise our hearts: Levit. 3.3, 4. God took special care that he might have all the Kidneys and Fat; the Kidneys and Fat are our strongest desires and lusts, why, when we come to offer Sacrifice, we must bring them before the Lord, and burn them, there is no savour so sweet in Gods nostrils as the burning of our strongest lusts, the more our lusts stink in our nostrils, the more sweet smelling savour ⟨p. 114⟩it is to God, so long as our lusts smell sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

Ʋse 1. To teach us, it is not enough for us to abstaine from outward gross sins, but love not your lusts: thou mayest refrain from the outward acts of sin, but yet thy heart may be strongly affected towards sin, and thou mayest delight therein; if thou dost, thou lovest the world, and the things of the world; therefore labour to cleanse your selves from secret lusts. Circumcision was the cutting off the fore-skin of a secret member, and yet God would have another Circumcision more secret, and that is of the heart, we must not content our selves with outward reformation, but circumcise our hearts: Levit. 3.3, 4. God took speciall care that he might have all the Kidnies and Fat; the Kidnies and Fat are our strongest desires and lusts, why, when we come to offer Sacrifice, we must bring them before the Lord, and burn them, there is no savour so sweet in Gods nostrils as the burning of our strongest lusts, the more our lusts stink in our nostrils, the more sweet smelling savour ⟨p. 114⟩it is to God, so long as our lusts smel sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.