for because of it he cannot get his whole delight u•interruptedly set on him, and though he delighteth in the Law of God after the inner m•n, yet he cannot win up to full conformity to it in his practise, or when he would and resolveth to do good, yet, (ere he wit as it were) ill is present with him, and his heart is away and on the pursuit of one foolish •oy and vanity or another: 10. Paul speaking of these lustful stirrings of the heart, doth make it evident, Rom. 7. throughout the Chapter, that this Command speaketh of such Lusts which he had not known▪ except the Law had said thou shalt not lust. Now men naturally know that inward assent to sin, even before it be acted is sinful; yea, Paul knew he had such things as these corrupt motions in him, but he knew not that they were sinful, but from the Law, and that after its spiritual meaning was made known to him; and from this it is that such who are regenerate ⟨p. 275⟩see more sins in themselves then ever they did while unregenerate, not simply▪ because they have more, but now having the spirit, and a contrary principle with in, they discern that to be sinful, which they took no notice of as such formerly: 11. The frequency of this sin of inordinacy in the first stirrings and motions of the heart is no little aggravation of it▪ for what hour of a mans life, when waking, (yea, even when asleep, in dreaming a man may be guilty of it, as Rivet upon this Command acknowledgeth) or half an hour is free of it? Is ever the mind quiet? and doth it not often yield consent to these motions? and how few good purposes are often followed forth? Alas! but seldom: 12. The extent of it is great, one may sin this way in reference to all the Commands, yea, to as many objects as his Neighbour or himself hath things of which they have the possession; yea, to Imaginations about things that have no being, nor, it may be, possibility of being, but are meet Chimera's: 13. The occasions of it, and snares to it, are rife and frequent, nothing we see, but readily it doth, as fire, inflame this Lust, so that we have need continually, as it were, to cast water on it; yea, what thing is there that is in it self lovely and desirable we hea• or read of, that we are not ready inordinately to be stirred towards the desiring of it. 14.
for because of it he cannot get his whole delight u•interruptedly set on him, and though he delighteth in the Law of God after the inner m•n, yet he cannot win up to full conformity to it in his practise, or when he would and resolveth to do good, yet, (ere he wit as it were) ill is present with him, and his heart is away and on the pursuit of one foolish •oy and vainity or another: 10. Paul speaking of these lustful stirrings of the heart, doth make it evident, Rom. 7. throughout the Chapter, that this Command speaketh of such Lusts which he had not known▪ except the Law had said thou shalt not lust. Now men naturally know that inward assent to sin, even before it be acted is sinful; yea, Paul knew he had such things as these corrupt motions in him, but he knew not that they were sinful, but from the Law, and that after its spiritual meaning was made known to him; and from this it is that such who are regenerate ⟨p. 275⟩see more sins in themselves then ever they did while unregenerate, not simply▪ because they have more, but now having the spirit, and a contrary principle with in, they discern that to be sinful, which they took no notice of as such formerly: 11. The frequency of this sin of inordinacy in the first stirrings and motions of the heart is no little aggravation of it▪ for what hour of a mans life, when waking, (yea, even when asleep, in dreaming a man may be guilty of it, as Rivet upon this Command acknowledgeth) or half an hour is free of it? Is ever the mind quiet? and doth it not often yield consent to these motions? and how few good purposes are often followed forth? Alace! but seldome: 12. The extent of it is great, one may sin this way in reference to all the Commands, yea, to as many objects as his Neighbour or himself hath things of which they have the possession; yea, to Imaginations about things that have no being, nor, it may be, possibility of being, but are meet Chimera's: 13. The occasions of it, and snares to it, are rife and frequent, nothing we see, but readily it doth, as fire, inflame this Lust, so that we have need continually, as it were, to cast water on it; yea, what thing is there that is in it self lovely and desirable we hea• or read of, that we are not ready inordinately to be stirred towards the desiring of it. 14.
