An elegant and lively description of spiritual life and death Delivered in divers sermons…An elegant and lively description of spirituall life and death Delivered in divers sermons…

¹I answer,² when a man ceaseth to maintain war with his lust, and resists it not; when a man lays down the weapons, when he seeth his lust is natural to him, and therefore yields unto it, then sin reigns in him. There is no man that lives the life of grace, but he hath this property, that he strives against all sin to the utmost, not in show, but in sincerity; ⟨p. 33⟩he strives against the occasions of sin though they foil him; he still maintains war against them, and so they live, and reign not in him.

¹I answer,² when a man ceaseth to maintaine warre with his lust, and resists it not; when a man layes downe the weapons, when he seeth his lust is naturall to him, and therefore yeelds unto it, then sinne reignes in him. There is no man that lives the life of grace, but hee hath this property, that hee strives against all sinne to the utmost, not in shew, but in sincerity; ⟨p. 33⟩he strives against the occasions of sinne though they foyle him; hee still maintaines warre against them, and so they live, and reigne not in him.

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2 If every man out of Christ be in an estate of death, let us not defer repentance,¹