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Now as concerning flesh & spirit which often are used in this Epistle: you must not take flesh to be (after the common manner) the desires and lusts of the flesh only, neither must you call the spirit only these things which are done spiritually in the inward corners of the hart. For the Apostle S. Paul (as also Christ himself in the 3 chap. of John do call flesh,¹ whatsoever is borne of the flesh, that is, the ⟨image 18⟩whole man body and soul, all mans reason wholly with all his chiefest and best powers: Because that all these things do savour of nothing but flesh, & seek after nothing but fleshly things. Wherefore thou shall call all those works flesh, which seem to be good, and make a beautiful show of holy works, and yet are done without the grace and working of the holy Spirit of GOD in the heart. Which thing is plain and evident by the 5 chap. to the Gal. where Paul reckoneth & counteth heresies amongst the fruits of the flesh. And in the 7 chap. to the Romans he saith, that the law is made weak, by reason of the flesh, which thing ought to be meant not only of the unchaste lusts of the flesh, but also ⟨image 18⟩of the whole mass of corruption and wickedness: yea briefly and chiefly of incredulity, or unbelief,² which is the most secret and chief sin of all.

Now as concerning flesh & spirit which often are vsed in this Epistle: you must not take flesh to be (after the common manner) the desires and lusts of the flesh only, neither must you call the spirit only these things which are done spiritually in the inward corners of the hart. For the Apostle S. Paul (as also Christ himself in the 3 chap. of Iohn doe call flesh,¹ whatsoever is borne of the flesh, that is, the ⟨image 18⟩whole man body and soule, all mans reason wholy with all his chiefest and best powers: Because that all these thinges doe savour of nothing but flesh, & seeke after nothing but fleshly things. Wherefore thou shall call al those works flesh, which seeme to bee good, and make a beautifull show of holy works, and yet are done without the grace and working of the holy Spirit of GOD in the heart. Which thing is plaine and evident by the 5 chap. to the Gal. where Paul reckoneth & counteth heresies amōgst the fruits of the flesh. And in the 7 chap. to the Romans he saith, that the law is made weake, by reason of the flesh, which thing ought to be meant not only of the vnchaste lusts of the flesh, but also