Not in the lust of concupiscence
Or "passion of lust"; for the mere gratifying and indulging of
that; for a man so to possess his vessel, is to cherish the sin
of concupiscence, the first motions of sin in the heart, by which
a man is drawn away, and enticed; to blow up the flame of lust,
and to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof:
even as the Gentiles which know not God;
for, though they knew him, or might know him with a natural
knowledge, by the light and works of nature, yet they knew him
not savingly and spiritually, as he is revealed in the word, of
which they were destitute; or as the God of all grace, and the
God and Father of Christ, or as he is in Christ: and though by
the light of nature they might know there was a God, yet they
knew not who that God was; nor did they act up to that light and
knowledge they had; they did not glorify him as God, by ascribing
to him what was his due; nor were they thankful for the mercies
they received from him; nor did they fear, love, worship, and
serve him; nor did they like to retain him in their knowledge,
and therefore were given up to judicial blindness and hardness,
to a reprobate mind, and to vile affections, and so did things
very inconvenient, unnatural, and dishonourable. Wherefore, for a
man to use either his wife or his body in any unchaste and
dishonourable manner, for the gratifying of his lusts, is to act
an Heathenish part; a like argument, dissuading from things
unlawful, is used in ( Matthew 6:32
) ( Matthew
20:25 Matthew
20:26 ) ( Galatians
4:8 Galatians
4:9 ) .