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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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The other is their cohabitation and dwelling together in the same place and subject, which ministereth unto them mutually occasion, and imposeth a necessity of their continual opposition, even as when fire and water, heat and cold meet together, there can never be any agreement, or so much as a truce till the one of them have gotten the upper hand, and the other as much as lieth in the power of the contrary quality, be subdued and abolished.
The other is their cohabitation and dwelling together in the same place and subiect, which ministreth vnto them mutually occasion, and imposeth a necessity of their continuall opposition, euen as when fire and water, heate and colde meete together, there can neuer bee any agreement, or so much as a truce till the one of them haue gotten the vpper hand, and the other as much as lyeth in the power of the contrary quality, be subdued and abolished.
1Neither are we so to conceive it as though these enemies so opposite dwelled in the same City, but in divers holds, or in the same man in respect of his divers parts, but even (as it were) in the same house and chamber, in the same faculties and parts. More plainly, the flesh doeth not only dwell in the body or inferior and sensual parts; and the spirit in the soul alone, or the intellectual and reasonable faculties, for so they might part their bounds & dominions, shut the door against one another, and sometime enjoy a peace or truce without the others molestation; but in the same understanding & will, body and affections, so that the whole soul in respect of it divers faculties, is partly flesh and partly spirit, and cannot be divided but only distinguished, the understanding, will, affections and body being partly regenerate & partly unregenerate, partly sanctified by Gods spirit, and partly sinful and corrupted with those relics of sin remaining in them. For example the image of God is in part renewed, and the image of sin and Satan in part remaineth. As in the understanding ignorance is inchoatively dispelled & driven away, and the light of knowledge shineth in it, not perfectly, but still the fog and mists ⟨p. 188⟩