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For those who live according to flesh are concerned with the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit with things of the spirit. (Romans 8:5)
Deprivation of the physical self and admission of sinful thoughts
Total Depravity Unconditional Election Limited Atonement Irresistable Grace Perseverance of the Saints
''For our nature is not only destitute of all good, but is so fertile in all evils that it cannot remain inactive. Those who have called it concupiscence have used an expression not improper, if it were only added, which is far from being conceded by most persons, that every thing in man, the understanding and will, the soul and body, is polluted and engrossed by this concupiscence; or, to express it more briefly, that man is of himself nothing else but concupiscence. . . .''
The Puritans believed in that each indivdual person should constantly be reformed by the grace of God and should fight against the in dwelling sin, and do what is right. (Puritan-Beliefs)
Sinful thoughts, especially towards anothers spouse, were highly frowned upon, and were very rarely admitted in public or to a minister. Sinful thoughts also implied that you were definatly going to hell and there was no way that you were part of the elite group bound for heaven.
"The central tenet of Puritanism was God's supreme authority over human affairs, particularly in the church, and especially as expressed in the Bible. This view led them to seek both individual and corporate conformance to the teaching of the Bible, and it led them to pursue both moral purity down to the smallest detail as well as ecclesiastical purity to the highest level." -puritan beliefs
