to the E P H E S I A N S. 81 So by this you may eafily under!l:and wherein .the finfulnefs of thefe Lu!l:s lie. ~. -VI All thefe Lu!l:s are guided by love to a Man's felf, and love to Pbfurcs in fume- ~ thing elfe than God. The paffage being !l:opt to God, it runs to Riches, Beauty, · Honour, and all thefe worldly things,as its chiefe!l: Good. Whatfoever the Under– ftanding of a Man (ifhe be wife) can find that is fuitable to him, it draws forth a lull: towards that thing. Whatfoever the Art and Wit of Man finds any way fuitable to him, he is carried out to it, and that lneerly out of a loVe he beareth tO himfelf, and meerly for Pleafure's fake: that look which way Self-love moveth, frill that way the vein of Lull: runneth ; as that is pleafed or difpleafed, the Sou! cometh off or on, putteth forth Lu!l:s or Defires, and pulls them in agaih. And he bath no new Defires put into him which he had not at Jirft, only thefe Defires are left to themfelves, God being taken away: fo that now all the Affetl:ions iri the Soul turn with that Wind every way ; if another Man have Happinefs,_and he wants it, Self-love (ddiring Happihefs) puts forth Envy, the fpirit that is iri us Ju!l:eth afi:er Envy : !l:ill they have all their rife and fpring in the love of a M<tn's felf, and in the love ofPleafures, fetting up the~reature more than God : There' fore the 'Belly is faid to be God, and Mamtnoll lS fatd to be God. The holinefs of Man's defires lay in fubordinating all things to God; and the finfulnefs of them lies, in loving of Pleafures ~re than God : _fo th~ Apoflle exprefleth it, Theft are the Lufls in onr Flejh. There is not an Achon !l:trreth, but thefe Lufts are the ground ofit. And hence (that I may give you a Scripture for this Divifion) they are called our own Lufls, and worldly Lufls. . . They are called (in refpetl: ofSelf in us) 011r own Lufls. And therefore to live to a Man's Lu!l:s, and to live to a Man's felf, are all one. lit 2 Cor. 5· that which in one place is called living to a Man's Lufls, is in another place called living to a Man's Self, becaufe that Self-love runs in the vein ofevery Lull:,as ail Artery cloth under a Vein in a Man's Body ; and you may feel the Pulfe ofit, ifyou lay your Hand upon your Heart, and fearch but narrowly into the bottom ofall. And they are therefore called the Lufls ofour dll!n Hearts, in Rom. 1. They are likewife calledWorldly Lufts, becaufe the things ofthis World are the Objetl:s ofthem. They are called Earthly Members, becaufuhey run out to things onEarth, as inCo/.3. 5· and Flefhly LH{is, in 2 Pet. 2. II. And fo now I have lhewn you wherein lies the finfulnefs that is in every Lull: in the Heart ofMan. 1 come now in the next place likewife, , I V. To !hew you what it is to have our Converfation in thefe Lu!l:s, Ifyou mark it, the Apo111e when he fpeaks of the Efficacy that Satan and the World bath upon us, he ufes another phrafe, Walkjng (faith he) according to the courfe of the World; and, according to the 'Prince ofthe power of the Air: but when he fpeaks ofLufts, he !peaks ofthem as of an inward intrinfecal caufe, having o11r co11'iJerfation in the Lufts of the Flefb: In the Flefh, as a Fifh is faid to live in the Water. And a Man is faid to be in Love, or inWine, or in Anger, or in Paflion, becaufe he is overcome with it. So we are faid to have our Converfation in Lu!l:s, and to be in the Flefh; becaufe a Man is always overcome with fame one Lull: or other, and that's the ground of all the Atl:ions be doth, fo long as he is in his na• tural e!l:ate. And there~ore .James faith, He tbat i1 tempted, _is drawn ajide of his own Lulls. And, as Ghrtft fattb, that wbtch CO/Jreth from withm, drjileth the Ma11. The Scripture therefore cloth attribute all the Actions of the Sons of Men unto their Lu!l:s. In 2 Tim-3- 6. Led away with divers L:ifls. All the Corruption that is~n the World, is attributed to the daily boylings up ofthere Lu!l:s, to the turn• bhngs and toflings of there Defires ; ( for the Soul ofMan is like the raging Sea, toiling to and fro, and never re!l:eth.) So in 2 Pet. I+ The corruption that is in the Worlathr0f1ghL:ifl; and, the old man is faid to be cormpt in Lu{is, Eph.4.22. And _the!efore the Apo!l:Je cloth propound thefe Luf!s as the chiel'e!l: object ofMortifi• . canon, as I ipal! fpeak by and by. . . . . . And then, m the fecond place, to haveour Converfauon m thefe Lu!l:s, tt cloth note~ut a con!l::iricy alfo, a con!l:ant walking in fame Luft or other ; wherea! there IS no other foundation of all the A/lions of a Man's ways, but thefe finful Lullings ofhis I>Wn heart. It may be reduced either into the love of Plealure in * 1. fame·
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