lusts

They call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to be a slave to his lusts is the worst of slaveries.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Note, The strength of men's lusts is an evidence of the weakness of their hearts; they have no acquaintance with themselves, nor government of themselves.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

As the prevalency of men's lusts is owing to the darkness of their understandings, so the darkness of their understandings is very much owing to the dominion of their lusts: Men understand not judgment, discern not between truth and falsehood, right and wrong; they understand not the law of God as the rule either of their duty or of their doom; and, 1.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Nothing will beggar men sooner than the lusts of uncleanness; and the best preservative from those ruinous lusts is wisdom.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Some have been judged as to their profession of him by strong temptations; that is, their lusts, ambition, selfishness, which have carried them into ways and compliances wherein they have been compelled to desert, and almost renounce all their former profession.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

The soul with some is the game, their lusts are the dogs, and they themselves are the huntsmen; and never do they more halloo and lure and laugh and sing, than when they have delivered up their soul, their darling, to these dogs.

The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

For when their unhallowed zeal shall drive them beyond the endurance of sound doctrine, they will heap up teachers for their lusts, that is, construct schemes of doctrine to suit their own desires, not wishing to be taught, but getting together teachers who will tell them what they wish: that the crowd of teachers whom they have ferreted out and gathered together, may satisfy them with the doctrines of their own tumultuous desires.

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

The members are the first seat of war; thence it passes to conflict between man and man, nation and nation. come they not, &c. -- an appeal to their consciences. lusts -- literally, "pleasures," that is, the lusts which prompt you to

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

In regard, then, to the form or image wherein the natural mind images hell, that form or image is such that the reigning love with its lusts, which is the universal state of that mind, is like what the devil is in hell; and the thoughts of the false arising out of that reigning love are, as it were, the devil's crew.

Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

They are called lusts, because according to the quantity and quality of the lust for those things, such and so great is their appropriation.

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730