A51847:541
Sermons preached
Sermons preached by the late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1678
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.
2. For the consequent and fruit of it, and ye shall not fulfil the Lust of the Flesh.
Here two things must be explained. 1. The Lust of the Flesh. 2. Fulfil.
1. For the Lust of the Flesh. By it is meant the inordinate Motions of corrupt Nature. The Flesh doth not consider what is right and good, but what is pleasing to the Senses, and craveth their satisfaction with much importunity and earnestness, to the wrong of God and our own Souls; especially in Youth, when the Senses are in Vigour, and Lust and Appetite in their Strength and Fury. And generally all carnal Men are governed by the Lusts of the Flesh, called by the Apostle, The Wills of the Flesh and the Mind, Eph. 2. 3. By which the Heart is drawn from God to things Earthly and Carnal. Well then, by the Lusts of the Flesh are meant the Motions of inbred Corruptions.
1. For the Lust of the Flesh. By it is meant the inordinate Motions of corrupt Nature. The Flesh doth not consider what is right and good, but what is pleasing to the Senses, and craveth their satisfaction with much importunity and earnestness, to the wrong of God and our own Souls; especially in Youth, when the Senses are in Vigour, and Lust and Appetite in their Strength and Fury. And generally all carnal Men are govern'd by the Lusts of the Flesh, called by the Apostle, The Wills of the Flesh and the Mind, Eph. 2. 3. By which the Heart is drawn from God to things Earthly and Carnal. Well then, by the Lusts of the Flesh are meant the Motions of inbred Corruptions.