...was our preservation from many snares, to which others were continually exposed, by the prevalency of the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life, that wanted no occasions or temptations to excite them abroad in the converse of the world. I cannot...

...prayer, lost enjoyment, and my heart naturally carnal, and madly fond of pleasure, got entangled. ' The lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life,' regained their power ; other loves usurped the place of that Beloved, who had bought me with his blood,...

...Churchworship. In a land where the devotion of the senses was mistaken for that of the Spirit, and where " the lust of the eye. the lust of the flesh and the pride of life," soon became ministers of the altar, music was carried out beyond its just proportions, and in various...

...to these three cardinal and fundamental temptations, by which Satan standeth to allure us, which are the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life; that our eye may not take in any sweet and pleasant representations of the transient vanities of the...

...to lay up his treasures. But as he is still liable to a partial subjection to the evil influences of the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life., he has to contend against these corrupt and debasing influences as long as he sojourns on this earth....

...holy fortitude, and of non-conformity to the world, pervaded the minds of the disciples of Jesus, and the " lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life," were considered as unworthy the pursuit of those who accounted themselves " strangers and pilgrims...

...idolatry, against which the children of light have also to struggle — the worshiping of self, and of the world, — the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. These more refined idolatries are not less sinful, though less easily detected, than the grossest idolatry...

...himself from all appearance of evil, and disposing his life to a strict endeavour to resist the love of the world, ' the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.' Supposing that this rule be well established, it must surely be difficult to understand how any one...

...and hence he was ungodly, as having no supreme affection for God, and subject to worldly lusts — " the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life." These lusts are not eradicated by conversion ; they may long continue to be to the believer what the...

...and perfection. This also the Apostle John well considered when he comprehended all sin under th« lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. VOL. II. U ID this way, finally, it is shown, that not only the objective communication of the Redeemer's...