Where Clennes doth in place apeere, Ther is Concupiscence gone quighte.
Mark her dancing, her masking, and mumming-- Where more concupiscence than there coming?
Let every sinful desire humble you, for the worldliness and fleshliness which it discovereth to be yet unmortified in you; and turn your desires to the mortifying of that flesh and concupiscence which is the cause.
Thus God is hated by the wicked according to the measure of their wickedness, and carnal interest, and concupiscence which he is against.
Remember that concupiscence or sinful desire is the beginning of all sin of commission, and leadeth directly to the act.
Godliness is unreconcilable to concupiscenceand the carnal interest.
Yea, and every slight volition or velleity will not conquer opposing concupiscence and volitions: nor is every will effectual to command the life, and prevail against its contrary.
And thus, while concupiscence or sensuality hath dominion, sin is said to have dominion over them, and they are servants to it, Rom.
Which showeth, that though these men have somewhat overcome the sensual concupiscence or flesh, yet have they not sufficiently overcome the selfish disposition, nor yet known and loved God as God, nor good as good.
Take heed lest concupiscence and partiality entice you to justify your sinful desires and take them to be lawful.
And it is not the prime good which is above them, and to be preferred before them, which they love as such, but such goodness as is fitted to their fleshly concupiscence and ends.
And it is a sign some rod of God is near you, when you are sick for this, or that, or the other thing, and will not be quiet and content unless your fancy and concupiscence be humoured.
Therefore it is a great sin for any man to reduce another to extremity, and deprive him of necessaries for his life, merely to vindicate his own right in superfluities, for the satisfaction of his concupiscence and sensual desires.
Now, walking under the windows of my seraglio, if Johayma look out, she will certainly take me for Antonio, and call to me; and by that I shall know what concupiscence is working in her.
For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world.
And the world passeth away and the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever.
If they do not expose themselves in the highway, they betray their concupiscence within the confines of their own dwellings.
Has he not long since sacrificed his traditional pure faith on the altar of selfishness andconcupiscence and committed a deliberate suicide of his moral and spiritual faculty?
I find in our faculty of medicine, and we have founded our opinion therein upon the deliberate resolution and final decision of the ancient Platonics, that carnal concupiscence is cooled and quelled five several ways.
But while I am passing from the discomfort of emptiness to the content of replenishing, in the very passage the snare of concupiscence besets me.
Placed then amid these temptations, I strive daily against concupiscence in eating and drinking.
If we rely for support on wealth or form, then wild confusion and concupiscence result: inconstant and impure.
Him I call indeed a Brâhmana who in this world, having abandoned all desires, travels about without a home, and in whom all concupiscence is extinct.
And the devil that bloweth up this fire in their flesh, doth conduct and accommodate them in the satisfying of their lusts; so that their brutish concupiscence is like a fire burning in the sea; water itself will not quench it.
So often was she visited in this manner, that in the end her concupiscence and carnal desires conquered, and she was fairly hit by the dart of love.
The twentieth came, and the poor simpleton had lost all colour and seemed half dead, and felt no more desires of concupiscence than if she had been really dead.
Simultaneously with this celestial delectation, concupiscence (delectatio carnalis, concupiscentia) is doing its work in fallen man, and the two powers constantly contend for the mastery.
Hence, though concupiscence remains, the soul has no longer in it anything damnable, i.
It is only when the delectatio coelestis overcomes concupiscence (delectatio coelestis victrix) that free-will can perform the act inspired by grace.
St. Augustine did not regard “celestial delectation” as the essential mark of efficacious grace, nor concupiscence as the characteristic note of sin.
As for the sensitive appetite, it may either assume the form of concupiscence and hinder the work of salvation, or aid it by favorable emotions excited supernaturally.
Augustine expressly admits that, no matter how deeply God may allow a man to fall, and no matter how strongly concupiscence may dominate his will, he is yet able to pray for grace, which is in itself a distinctly salutary act.
Jansenius taught that the will is overcome by efficacious grace in exactly the same way as it is overpowered by concupiscence in the absence of grace.
James Chapter 4 The evils that flow from yielding to concupiscence and being friends to this world.
Sin proceeds from concupiscence, and concupiscence from our carnal passions and temptations, chief of which are pride, sensuality in all its forms, and the loves of worldly excitement and possession.
The laws of Manu attribute to women concupiscence and anger, the love of bed and of adornment.
Every man is tempted by his ownconcupiscence (James i.
Hypersexuality and abnormal sexuality are not in themselves sinful, but are manifestations of that inordinate concupiscence that is the effect of original sin and, if yielded to, becomes the cause of actual sin.
No ironclad rules, however, can be given to determine universally what things are gravely and what slightly dangerous, since the force and direction of concupiscence are not the same in all persons.
Interested love (the love of concupiscence or of hope) is therefore necessary.
On the other, his conception of the great and, without grace, irresistible power of concupiscence draws him in the opposite direction.
On the contrary, he teaches, as a rule, that sin is reprehensible; he also instructs man to fight against concupiscence which leads up to it.
This was the state of nature in which man knew not sin, and suffered himself to be drawn by concupiscence without being aware of it.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols.
By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.
For the bewitching of vanity obscureth good things, and the wandering of concupiscence overturneth the innocent mind.
As a matter of course he thinks that God looks upon concupiscence as sin, even in its permissible manifestations, e.
In the shape of original sin it ever remains; concupiscence is always sinful; and, even in the righteous, actual sin persists, only that its cry is drowned by the voice speaking from the Blood of Christ.
All acts of concupiscence are, therefore, sins, being works of our bondage under Satan; only by the free grace of Christ can they be cloaked over.
And this is nothing else than that every evil concupiscence shall be taken away, so that the heart, by an internal impulse, does what is right.
Consequently of all the concupiscible passions, concupiscence is felt most; and for this reason the power is named after it.
Therefore concupiscence is in each power of the soul, and not only in the sensitive appetite.
And thus the inclination of the members to concupiscence is called "the law of the members.
Therefore concupiscence is not a specific passion in the concupiscible faculty.
Augustine often speaks of desire or concupiscence in the sense of love, as was also stated (Q.
Therefore the effect of concupiscence is to make something to be voluntary rather than involuntary.
Concupiscence of the eyes" does not mean here the concupiscence for all things which can be seen by the eyes, but only for such things as afford, not carnal pleasure in respect of touch, but in respect of the eyes, i.
On the other hand, concupiscence of the means is not infinite, because the concupiscence of the means is in suitable proportion to the end.
If concupiscence were to destroy knowledge altogether, as happens with those whom concupiscence has rendered mad, it would follow that concupiscence would take away voluntariness.
