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What punishment was first layd on mans preuarication. CHAP. 13.
FOr after mankinde had broken the precept, hee was first, forsaken of Gods grace and confounded with his ownenakednesse: and so with the figge leaues * 1.1 (the first perhaps that came to hand,) they couered their nakednesse a•…•…d shame: their members were before as they were then, but they were not (a) shameful before, whereas now they felt a new motion of their disobedient flesh, as the re∣ciprocal (b) punishment of their disobedience, for the soule being now delighted with peruerse liberty and scorning to serue GOD, could not haue the body at the former command: & hauing willingly forsaken GOD the superior, i•…•… could not haue the inferior so seruiceable as it desired, nor had the flesh subiect as it might haue had alwaies, had it selfe remained Gods subiect. For then the flesh beganne to couet, and contend against the spirit, and (c) with this contention are wee all borne, (d) drawing death from our originall, and bearing natures corruption, and * 1.2 contention, or victory in our members.
L. VIVES.
NOt (a) shamefull] Not filthy nor procuring shame, they had not beene offenside, had wee 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sinned, but had had the same vse that or feete, our hands now, but hauing offended, there was an obscaene pleasure put in them, which maketh them to bee ashamed of, and coue∣red. (b) Reciprocall] Which disobedience reflected vpon them: as they obeied not GOD, to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 nature subiected them, so should they finde a rebell, one of the members, against the rule of reason. (d) With this Some bookes ads some-thing here, but it is needlesse. (d) Draw∣ing 〈◊〉〈◊〉] That is, vpon the first sinne, arose this contention betweene the minde and their af∣fects which is perpetually in vs; wherein the minde is some-times victor, and some-times 〈◊〉〈◊〉: some read without victory, implying that the affections cannot be so suppressed, but then they will still rebell against reason, and disturbe it. This is the more subtile sence, and seemeth best to mee.