VB 1t s.J). An Expo{ition, with Notes CHAp.r. fetond death are both implyed: for as the Apoillc theweth the fupream caufe of fin, which is luft ; fo the lafi and utmofi refult of . it, which is death; not only that which is temporal, for then the feries would not be perfea, but that other death, which are weal– ways dying, and is called death) becaufe.life is neither defired, nor can it properly be fa id to be enjoyed; Vivere lnolunt mori ntf.fciunt, theywould not live, and cannot dye. The Notes are thefe : 06ferv at. 1 • I. Thatjin incroa•heth upon theJP irit b] degrees; the Apofl:le gqcth on with the pedigree of ir, lufi begettethProng and vigor~u; motions, or pleajing and delightful thou~hts, whtch draw the mrnd to afull andclear confent,and then fin is hatched,and thendifdofed, and then ftrengthened, a!1d then the perfon is deftroyed: Toopen the procefs or ihcceffive inclination of the Soul to fin, it will not be amifs to give the whole traverfe of any pratl:ical matter in the Soul; there is firfi ~~€~1~, which is nothing but the irritation ofthe objdl, provoking the Soul ro look after it; then there is gw.n, ah1o– tion of the fenfittve appetite, or low~r foul, which receiving things by the fancy, reprefenteth them as a fenfual good, and fo a man in· clineth to rhem, according as rhey are more or lefs pleafaot to the fenfes, and thc_n the underffandingcomerh ro apprehend them, and the'\.\ 1 i// indineth, at leafr, fo far, as to move the ur1ded.l:anding to _ look more after them, and to advife about fome likely m~ans to ac– complifh and effect them, which is called P~.l\1lfJ'I~ conjultation; and when · the underfianding hath confulted upon the motion of the will, there fot!ownh (2~A.», a decree of the will about it, and then dlf»lll>,theactual choice of the thing, and then (2~r..np.a., a perfect de– fire, and thenaction ; and fo fin is reprefented by the fancy to the - appetite, and then fancy,being afriend, blindeth the underfianding, and then the Soul tx ginnerh to be engaged in the purfuit of it. If this murfe and merhod be a little too large for your thoughts, fte - it contracted in this paifage of our Apofile~. there is concupifcence, or corrupt nature , then fuff, or fome inclinations of the Soul to dofe with fin, then delight, thenfu!!confent, and thenaction, and thendeath. D.widobferveth fomewhat alike progrefs, Pfal. I. I. , BlejfcJ i& the man that walk.,ethnot in the counfel of the ungedlb nor jhmdeth in the way ofjinners, nor Jitteth in the feat of th~ fcornf ul. Sin is never at a Hay, firfi ungodly, then jinners, then fcormrs; firfi counfel.r,then Way>thenfeat; and again~ fufi lMik.., then
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