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The conflict between the flesh and the spirit. Or the last part of The…The conflict betvveene the flesh and the spirit. Or the last part of The…
The conflict between the flesh and the spirit. Or the last part of The Christian warfare wherein is described the nature of these combatants, the malice and power of the flesh and fleshly lusts, with the means whereby we may subdue and overcome them. By John Downame Bachelor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word.The conflict betvveene the flesh and the spirit. Or the last part of The Christian warfare wherein is described the nature of these combatants, the malice and power of the flesh and fleshly lusts, with the meanes whereby we may subdue and ouercome them. By Iohn Dovvname Batchelar in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods Word.
London: printed by William Jones, 1618London: printed by William Iones, 1618
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1Thirdly, they object the words of the Apostle Rom. 12. 6. Let not sin reign in your mortal body; from whence they conclude that the seat of sin is in the body and not in the soul and reason. To which the answer is easy; namely that by the name of body, here we are not simply to understand the body alone, but by a Synecdoche of the part for the whole, the person of man consisting of soul and body. And this is usual in the Scriptures by one part to signify the whole person, and as by the body to include the soul, so in other places, by the soul to include the body. As, the soul that sinneth shall die, and all the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins were 2threescore and six. And thus Ambrose expoundeth this place. The Apostle (saith he) calling it mortal body, understandeth 3the whole man, because they who obey sin are called mortal. For the soul (saith he) that sinneth shall die, that is the whole man, for none shall be judged without their bodies. And that the Apostle by naming the body did not exclude the soul, it appeareth in the next words, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof; whereby he showeth that sin is not only in the body, but first and principally in the powers and faculties of the soul.
1Thirdly, they obiect the words of the Apostle Rom. 12. 6. Let not sinne raigne in your mortall body; from whence they conclude that the seate of sinne is in the body and not in the soule and reason. To which the answere is easie; namely that by the name of body, here we are not simply to vnderstand the body alone, but by a Synechdoche of the part for the whole, the person of man consisting of soule and body. And this is vsuall in the Scriptures by one part to signifie the whole person, and as by the body to include the soule, so in other places, by the soule to include the bodie. As, the soule that sinneth shall die, and all the soules that came with Iacob into Egypt, which came out of his loynes were 2