John Trapp on Romans 7:21

Verſe 21.Tota vita bani Chriſtiani ſanctum deſiderti[illegible: 1 letter] eſt. Aug. When I would doe good] Something lay at the fountain head, as it were, and ſtopt him when he would do his duty. But God valueth a man by his deſires.

Evil is preſent] We can ſtay no more from ſinning, then the heart can from panting, and the pulſe from beating. Our lives are fuller of ſins then the firmament of ſtarres, or the furnace of ſparks. Eraſmus was utterly out, that ſaid with Origen, Paulum hoc ſermone balbutire, quum ipſe potiùs ineptiat, ſaith learned Beza. So Joannes Sylvius Aegranus, a learned, but a prophane perſon, reprehended Paul for want of learning, and ſaid, Quòd uſus ſit declamatorijs verbis, non congr[illegible: 2 letters]ntibus ad rem[illegible: 1 letter], &c.Joh. Manl. loc. com. 165, 486. Nominabat ſophiſma, quod diceremus homines non poſſe implere legem, &c.