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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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So Chrysostom saith, that the soul here is more to be blamed and accused then the body, because 1the body designeth, no evil without direction from the soul, but contrariwise the soul committeth much wickedness without the use and assistance of the body. So Augustine saith that the flesh (that is the body) without the soul cannot covet. And 2although the cause of carnal concupiscence be not in the soul alone, yet much less is it in the body alone. And therefore it ⟨p. 47⟩ariseth from both, to wit, from the soul because no delight is felt without it, and also from the body, because neither without it is there any sense of carnal pleasure.
So Chrysostome saith, that the soule here is more to bee blamed and accused then the body, because 1the body designeth, no euill without direction from the soule, but contrariwise the soule committeth much wickednesse without the vse and assistance of the body. So Austine saith that the flesh (that is the body) without the soule cannot couet. And 2although the cause of carnall concupiscence bee not in the soule alone, yet much lesse is it in the body alone. And therefore it ⟨p. 47⟩ariseth from both, to wit, from the soule because no delight is felt without it, and also from the body, because neither without it is there any sense of carnall pleasure.
- 1Chrysost. in Eph. 2. Serm. 6.
- 2Aug. de Gen. ad literam. lib. 10. cap. 12.