Corr. r ó. Of Concupifcence, ec. Chap, 2; 525 the Antecedents, or in the confequentsof it, es evil, and to be avoided,) therefore the A. i Cor. 6. iz. pollle would not have us to be brought under thepower of any thing, becaufe the Devil loth fometimes kindle fucb an earneit delire and appetite in a man after forne lawful indifferent thing, that he will not forgoe it for any caufe, and then the Devil will quickly find a condition to annex to it, whereby he will draw a man to fomething limply unlawful, as he thought to have done withChriff; when having (hewed him the Kingdoms of the World, and the glory of them, where with he thought he had wrought upon his affe&ions, he prefently feeks to draw him to idolatry, Hat tibi dabo, &c. All thefe will Igive thee, if thole wilt fall dram Manh,4.5t, and worfhip me. Thus the defires of our concupifcence in ma/o, in evil, are either as S. Augufline faith, per injuflitiam, or adjetflitiam, either to get things lawful byevil means, or if by lawful means, yet for an evil end ; and both thefe wayes of getting are juítly condemned, even in the very delire of the heart. Thisconcupifcence,and thefe defires proceeding from it,areexpreffed inSeri EpheC4,za. tsture by other words.Sometimes it is called the oldman; fometimesfin dwelling in Col. 3.9. sn : fometimes,tbe law ef'fn, and the lawof the members : fometimes, the fling of Rgmo.T2o,z3 death: fometinres,theprickin theflelh: fometimes, the fin which hangs fo 7 Cor. 1,5,55 f % f 2 Cor iz.. fall en: fometimes, the skirmifhingfin which wars againfl thefoal : fometimes, virus Heb. ia. i. ferpen:is, the poyfon of the Serpent, which the Devil inftil'd into our nature at the i Pet.2.1 i. 6ril.The Schoolmen call itfomiteminfixnm, or fomitempeccati, that inbred fewel Gen.3.7. of lin.Others timElee, the diforder, or irregularity of the faculties of the foul : for whereas man had advanced his cencupifcence above hisreafon, again& the order and will of God,and fo made it chief ; and for fulfilling his defire hazarded the favour of God, therefore as a ¡lift puni(bment,God hash fo ordered in his wrath, The 'Inge!, of that it fhould be stronger then reafon ; fo that it cannot be brought under that being giv,n, fuperiour faculty though a man would. So that as God fail by the Prophet to a ,assaawn (and it is a fearful judgment) becaufe Ephraim hadmade altars to fin , therefore they Ho: ff,ti, fhould be to him to fn: fo here,becaufe man would have his concnpifcence fuperiour, it (hall indeed be fuperiour do what he can.Thus God in greacwrath fometimes deals with men,as he did with theIfraelites, They did eat and werefull, andhegave pfal.78.3o.. them their owndelire, they were not difappointedof theirlufl ; and inanother place,He & Si, 13. gave them tep to their own hearts lufls,and tofellow their own imaginations. Thus he dealt with the Heathen Romans, as the Apottle faith, after great difobedience', and Rom, i.nS. wilful finning againfe the light of their own hearts ; there follows this Illative, i Cor, 5,5 Ideotradidit eos dens, therefore God gave them up to their own delires, ctiunfels, z Cor. inventions, and imaginations. This is a fearful thing to be thus given up,to a mans own lull. It is much to be delivered over toSatan: Tradatur Satane,was a high cenfure;yet tradatur Satana had a return,he that was fo given up,was regained,But when a man is delivered up to himfelf, it is certain, that by ordinary means, he never. returns again : For this is that vús dJím11@, that reprobate fence (as the Apoltle calls it ) when God gives a man clean over, and withdrawing his grace , leaves him in his own hands to final deftru&ion : fo that it is better to be delivered over to the Devil, then to his own will. And thus we fee howwell we are to think of our own will,andhow dreadful a thing it is to be given over to it, andnot to hive Gods ,Spirit tomaintain a perpetual conflit therewith. CHAP. III. Howa man comes tobegiven up to his own defires. Thonghtsoftwo forts. t.Afcending from oar own hearts. 2. Injelledby the Devil. Themanner how we come to be ìnfelled: Sixdegrees infn. ',The receiving ofthe feed. 2. The retaining of it. 3. The con. ception. 4. Theformingoftheparts. S. The yuickning. 6. The travel or birth. 1,,` Ow for the meanswhereby a man comes to be thus endangered,it bath been ®e partly handled already in the firlt Commandement , which in our duty to God,anfwers to this,towards our Neighbour, and !hall partly be now touched.
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