Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 5:30

30 And if thy right Hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee, for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

The sum of these two Verses is, That the Salvation of our immortal Souls, is to be preferred before all things, be they never so dear, and precious to us, and if that Mens ordinary Discretion teacheth them for the Preservation of their Bodies to cut off a particular Member, which would necessarily indanger the whole Body: It much more teacheth them to part with any thing, which will prejudice the Salvation of their Souls. Not that any Person is by this Text obliged to cut off any bodily Member (as some have done) because there can be no such necessity: but only to mortifie their Members, Col. 3.5. the Deeds of the Body, Rom. 8.13. their inward Lusts, which being mortified there will be no need of Mutilating our selves; for the Members of the Body, are but Commanded, and animated to their Motions, from the inward Lusts of the Heart: But if there could happen such a Case, as that a Man must voluntarily part with the most useful Member of his Body, or sin against God to the Damnation of his Soul, he ought rather to chuse the former than the latter. How much more then ought Christians to Mortifie their inward Lusts and unlawful Desires, which can be of no Profit nor Advantage to them: But will certainly make them to offend God, and so run them upon the Danger of Hell-fire?