A37049:1406
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
If it be objected, 1. That this Lust is in men antecedently, not only to any formal vvill of their own, but to all power and ability to help it, or so much as not to vvill it, and so cannot be supposed to be forbidden to them.
If it be objected, 1. That this Lust is in men antecedently, not only to any formal vvill of their ovvn, but to all povver and ability to help it, or so much as not to vvill it, and so cannot be supposed to be forbidden to them.
Answ. 1. There are many things forbidden them, which now after the fall is not in their power to prevent. 2. This Law is to be looked on as given to man in his innocency, which therefore required of him the keeping entire and undefaced the Image of God, according to which he was created; and now condemneth him for the want of it, the scope of the Law being to point out perfect holiness, without respect to a mans ability, or his present condition, but to his duty, for the performing of which he got a power from God at first, but through voluntary transgression of the Law lost it, and none vvill deny but if it be a sin to have such a polluted nature, the Law must require it to be otherwise.
Answ. 1. There are many things forbidden them, vvhich novv after the fall is not in their povver to prevent. 2. This Lavv is to be looked on as given to man in his innocency, vvhich therefore required of him the keeping intire and undefaced the Image of God, according to vvhich he vvas created; and novv condemneth him for the vvant of it, the scope of the Lavv being to point out perfect holiness, vvithout respect to a mans ability, or his present condition, but to his duty, for the performing of vvhich he got a povver from God at first, but through voluntary transgression of the Lavv lost it, and none vvill deny but if it be a sin to have such a polluted nature, the Lavv must require it to be othervvayes.