A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

I answer; The World is taken for the corrupt World; all that is of Price, all that is of Account with carnal Men, all that takes up their Care and Thoughts, is Lust and Vanity; either the Lusts of the Flesh, the Lusts of the Eyes, or the Pride of Life. He doth not speak of the natural World, which is full of glorious Creatures, but of the corrupt World, which is opposite to the Kingdom of Christ, that's full of Lusts and Sins.

But let us see a little particularly, what are the Contents of this World. 1. The Lust of the Flesh. 2. The Lust of the Eyes. 3. The Pride of Life.

1. The Lust of the Flesh. Flesh is sometimes taken in a large sense for corrupt Nature, for the whole Dunghill of Corruption that we brought with us into the World: And the Lusts of the Flesh, for the workings of this Corruption, the reeking of this Dunghill, whether in the Understanding, by Thoughts or carnal Counsel; or in the Will, by carnal Desires, so it is taken at large: But here it is taken more strictly for the Corruptions of the sensual Appetite, or for the immoderate Desire of soft and delicate Living; and for Sensuality, or the intemperate use of Pleasures, Meats and Drinks, and such things as gratify the Flesh.

1. The Lust of the Flesh. Flesh is sometimes taken in a large sense for corrupt Nature, for the whole Dunghil of Corruption that we brought with us into the World: And the Lusts of the Flesh, for the workings of this Corruption, the reaking of this Dunghil, whether in the Understanding, by Thoughts or carnal Counsel; or in the Will, by carnal Desires, so it is taken at large: But here it is taken more strictly for the Corruptions of the sensual Appetite, or for the immoderate Desire of soft and delicate Living; and for Sensuality, or the intemperate use of Pleasures, Meats and Drinks, and such things as gratify the Flesh.