John Trapp on Romans 8:13

Verſe 13. If ye live after the fleſh] We muſt not think to paſſe è coeno ad Coelum, to dance with the devil all day, and ſup with Chriſt at night, to fly to heaven with pleaſant wings. Beetles love dunghils better then ointments: and ſwine love mud better then a garden, ſo do ſwiniſh people their luſts, better then the lives of their ſouls.Horat ep. 2. At Paris ut vivat regnet que beatus, Cogi poſſe negat. That carnall Cardinall ſaid, That he would not part with his part in Paris for Paradiſe.

But if ye mortifie the deeds, &c.] Either a man muſt kill here, or be killed,Camdens Eliſ. Aut for, aut feri, as Q. Elizabeth often ſighed and ſaid to her ſelf concerning the Queen of Scots. Valentinian the Emperour dying, gloried of one victory above the reſt, and that was his victory over the fleſh. Inimicorum nequiſſimum devici, carnem meam, ſaid he. Be alwaies an enemy to the devil,In vita Valentin. and the world, but ſpecially to your own fleſh, ſaid Rob. Smith, Martyr, in a letter to his wife.Act. and Mon. fol. 1545.