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Two treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat…Tvvo treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat…
Two treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat of the flesh and spirit.Tvvo treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat of the flesh and spirit.
Cambridge: printed by John Legate printer to the University of Cambridge. 1593., 1593Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legate printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge. 1593., 1593
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Flesh. Except this one sin, thy life is unblameable.
Flesh. Except this one sinne, thy life is unblameable.
Spirit. Behold I was borne in iniquity, &c.1
- 1vers. 5.
Yea, the best man that is, in the practise of godliness often appears to be unlike himself: the cause is this spiritual combat. The flesh other whiles makes him wail and mourn and go drooping: presently after the spirit puts into him (as we say) the heart of grass, and makes him triumph against the flesh, the devil the world. Moses was courageous at the1 red sea; but he failed at the waters of strife. Job first praiseth God, and after blasphemeth. David is often fainting in misery, yet by and by revived. Wherefore there is good cause why the consideration of repentance and the combat should go together: that no man, after he hath begun to repent, might dream of ease to his flesh; as though we should go to heaven in beds of down: but rather that we might be resolved, that when we begin to do any thing pleasing unto God, then we must look for nothing but continual molestations from our vile and wicked natures.
Yea, the best man that is, in the practise of godlinesse often appeares to be unlike himselfe: the cause is this spirituall combat. The flesh other whiles makes him waile and mourne and goe drooping: presently after the spirit puts into him (as we say) the heart of grasse, and makes him triumph against the flesh, the devill the world. Moses was couragious at the