Matthew Poole and continuators on James 1:14

14 But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust ▪ and enticed .

He shews the great cause of Sin; that Lust hath a greater hand in it, than either the Devil, or his Instruments, who cannot make us [illegible: 1 letter]in without our selves: They sometimes tempt, and do not prevail; but when Lust tempts, it always prevails either in whole, or in part, it being a Degree of Sin to be our own Tempters.

Either this notes a Degree of Sin, the Hearts being drawn off from God, or the way whereby Lust brings into Sin, viz. the Impetuousness and Violence of its motions in us.

Original Corruption in its whole Latitude, tho chiefly with respect to the appetitive Faculties

Either a farther degree of Sin enticed by the pleasantness of the Object, as represented by our own Corruption, or another way of Lusts working in us to sin, viz. by the Delightfulness and Pleasure of its motions: In the former it works by a kind of force, in this by Flatery and Deceit. It is either a Metaphor taken from a Fish enticed by a Bait, and drawn after it, or rather from an Harlot drawing a young Man out of the right Way, and alluring him with the Bait of Pleasure to commit Folly with her.