A89503:988
A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude
A practical commentary, or An exposition with notes on the Epistle of Jude. Delivered (for the most part) in sundry weekly lectures at Stoke-Newington in Middlesex. By Thomas Manton, B.D. and minister of Covent-Garden.
London: printed by J.M. for Luke Fawn, 1658
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2. Actual lust, so it signifieth any evil motion of the heart that swerveth from the Law of God, more especially our inordinate desires and inclinations to pleasures, honours or profit; sometimes they are called fleshly lusts, 1 Pet. 2. 11. as carrying us out to the satisfaction of our bodily and brutish appetites; sometimes worldly lusts, Tit 2. 12. because they are stirred by worldly objects; lusts are the fever of the soul, unnatural heats, transgressing the Laws of reason, and bounds of Religion.
2. Actual lust, so it signifieth any evil motion of the heart that swerveth from the Law of God, more especially our inordinate desires and inclinations to pleasures, honours or profit; sometimes they are called fleshly lusts, 1 Pet. 2. 11. as carrying us out to the satisfaction of our bodily and bruitish appetites; sometimes worldly lusts, Tit 2. 12. because they are stirred by worldly objects; lusts are the fever of the soul, unnatural heats, transgressing the Laws of reason, and bounds of Religion.
2. What doth this walking imply; 'tis elsewhere expressed by serving divers lusts and pleasures, Tit. 3. 3. and by fulfilling the desires of the flesh and the mind, Ephes. 2. 3. It noteth,
First, a willing subjection to lust, as a law or as a Master, the one is implied in walking after our lusts, the other in serving our lusts; when men do as they please, and let their sensual heart give Law to the whole man: a child of God may be overcome by his lusts, but he doth not walk after them, or serve them, he may be foiled, hut he doth not give over the combat, and is still resisting, striving, praying, calling in the help of the spirit, his soul suffereth a rape by lust, there is not a plenary consent on his part.