upon the Epijfleof JAM lis. enfiaved by {enfual and Aelhly objeCts; the part is put for the whole. · · 2. The "Wills of the mind~ are the fidl: riGngs of the corruption that is in the upper Soul, as Aelhly reafonings, thoughts and deGres, covetoufnefsj ambition, pri'de, envy, malice,&c. thefe are rooted in the corrupt rilings or O:irrings of the minde,will)&c. Thefe' things I thought good to hint, to lhew you what the Scripture intendech by lufl:, the vicious inclinations of our own fpirirs, chiefly thofe impetm primo primi, the firft ri(Jngs of original fin. He is drawn away, and enticed.] ·There is fome variety among Interpreters in opening thefe two words : Some conceive that in thefe two words the Apofile giveth out two cau!es of fin, one internal, which is lufr, as if that were hinted in the former word drawn away by hu tuft: And the other external, to wit, the plea[ure that adhereth to the object, which is as the bait to entice the Soul, for the word fignifieth, enticed as "With a bait; and {asPlato faith) Mov~ J'~M~f ltctx.(;fy, pleafure u the bait of fin: Thus 'Pi(cator and our Tranflacors feem to favor it, in putting the wo~ds thus , 'Whm he u drawn by hu own' tuft , t~nd enticed, as if they would intimate to us this fence, drawn away by his own !aft, and emiced by theobjet1; whereas the pofrme of the words, in the Original, refl-rrerh both to lufr, thus, When he u drawn ttway and enticed bJ hu tuft. Orhers make thefe words to hint j evera/ dcgrtes in the admiffion of fin, thus, firfr, drawn away from God, thenentic'dby fin, then, in the next Verfe, fin conceiveth, then hringcth fqrth,&c. Others, as 'PareU!, Grotim, &c. make thefe to be the iw'oparts offin, and by drawing away (fay they) is meant the departure from the true- good, and by [enticed J the cleaving to evil: for look as in Grace there is fomething privative and 'fomethingpojitive, a depanure from evil; and a cleaving to good ; fo, on the contrary, there is in Sin a withdrawing from that which is good, and an enrnaring by that which is evil: I cannot altogether di{;..allow this fence, though I rather incline to think, that nei– ther the objeanor the parts of evil are here hinted, but onely the fcvera/Wpt,ys which_lufr taketh to undo us; P~rdy by force, and fo that Word comtth in, ~~~Mop~J(§r, he is drawn ajide, or hded 'with the· rage and_impetuous vtolence of his delires; Partly by hlandifommt andallurements, and fo the other word is ufed, Jl6~ 1-.sct~G~'®-, he is enticed, and beguiled with the promife and ap- · pearance.of pleafure and fatisfattion to the Soul. P z From 107
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