2. Ye shall not fulfil: that is, accomplish and bring into complete act, especially with deliberation and consent. Mark, he doth not say that the lusting of corrupt Nature shall be totally suppressed, but it shall not be fulfilled. The best of God's Children feel the Motions of the Flesh, but they do not cherish and obey them. The Lusts of the Flesh may be said to be fulfilled two ways: 1. When the outward act is accomplished, or when Lust hath conceived and brought forth actual Sin, Jam. 1. 15. Which may sometimes come to pass in the Children of God, when they walk not in the Spirit, or obey not the Motions and Directions of the renewed part. This again may be done two ways, either upon Surprise, or Deliberation. By way of Surprise, Gal. 6. 1. [Greek or Hebrew], upon deliberation, when Men plot, and make provision to fulfil their Lusts, contrary to the Apostles advice, Rom. 13. 14. Make not provision for the Flesh, to fulfil the Lusts thereof. Thus it was with David in his great Sin; and this doth mightily aggravate the ⟨p. 195⟩offence, and provoke the Lord against us. 2. When for a continuance we obey the Flesh, usually accomplish its Motions without Let and Restraint, and with Love, Pleasure, and full consent of Will, this is proper to the Unregenerate. The Flesh doth reign over them as its Slaves; this is spoken of, Rom. 6. 12. Let not Sin reign in your mortal Body, that ye should obey it in the Lusts thereof. Let is not have a Power over you as Slaves. Well then, the meaning is, you will not abuse your Christian Liberty as an occasion to the Flesh, or give up your selves to do that, or seek that which the Flesh lusteth after.
2. Ye shall not fulfil: that is, accomplish and bring into compleat act, especially with deliberation and consent. Mark, he doth not say that the lusting of corrupt Nature shall be totally suppressed, but it shall not be fulfilled. The best of God's Children feel the Motions of the Flesh, but they do not cherish and obey them. The Lusts of the Flesh may be said to be fulfilled two ways: 1. When the outward act is accomplished, or when Lust hath conceiued and brought forth actual Sin, Iam. 1. 15. Which may sometimes come to pass in the Children of God, when they walk not in the Spirit, or obey not the Motions and Directions of the renewed part. This again may be done two ways, either upon Surprize, or Deliberation. By way of Surprize, Gal. 6. 1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, upon deliberation, when Men plot, and make provision to fulfil their Lusts, contrary to the Apostles advice, Rom. 13. 14. Make not provision for the Flesh, to fulfil the Lusts thereof. Thus it was with David in his great Sin; and this doth mightily aggravate the ⟨p. 195⟩offence, and provoke the Lord against us. 2. When for a continuance we obey the Flesh, usually accomplish its Motions without Let and Restraint, and with Love, Pleasure, and full consent of Will, this is proper to the Unregenerate. The Flesh doth reign over them as its Slaves; this is spoken of, Rom. 6. 12. Let not Sin reign in your mortal Body, that ye should obey it in the Lusts thereof. Let is not have a Power over you as Slaves. Well then, the meaning is, you will not abuse your Christian Liberty as an occasion to the Flesh, or give up your selves to do that, or seek that which the Flesh lusteth after.
