A34689:1594
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.
For he writes to Old-men and Young-men, Love not the World, nor the things of the World, for all that is in the World, the lust of the flesh, &c.
Quest. 1. What are the lusts of the flesh?
The lust of the flesh, is an affection to satisfy the flesh, as Col. 2. ult. whatsoever therefore the flesh, the body of man (not taking it for the whole corrupt nature, for that includes all these sins) but these lusts are bodily lusts, such as the body desires to be satisfied with.
The lust of the flesh, is an affection to satisfie the flesh, as Col. 2. ult. whatsoever therefore the flesh, the body of man (not taking it for the whole corrupt nature, for that includes all these sins) but these lusts are bodily lusts, such as the body desires to be satisfied with.
Now the body stirs up first to intemperancy, whereof two parts, Gluttony, and Drunkenness.