The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

Wherein we have, 1. The principle and root of sin and evil, the ⟨p. 84⟩flesh with its lusts. 2. The opposite principle and root of life and righteousness, the Divine Spirit. 3. The terms and bounds of a Christians conquest, how far he may hope for victory— Ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh: 4. the method and way of conquering — Walk in the Spirit, of each a word.

Wherein we have, 1. The principle and root of sin and evil, the ⟨p. 84⟩flesh with its lusts. 2. The opposite principle and root of life and righteousness, the Divine Spirit. 3. The terms and bounds of a Christians conquest, how far he may hope for victory— Ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh: 4. the method and way of conquering — Walk in the Spirit, of each a word.

1. The principle and root of sin and evil, the flesh with its lusts. The Apostle meaneth (pardon the phrase) a spiritual flesh, not that of the body, but the mind. The immortal souls of men, through their Apostasy from God, the blessed source, and original of all goodness, are become carnal, Rom. 4.7 There is a principle of evil radicated in the very nature, interwoven in the very frame and births and constitution of all men; a bias that turns us off in large and wide aberrations from the paths of life and happiness, but with notorious partiality seduceth us into the ways of sin and death. This the Scripture calls the^a old man, ^bthe law of sin in our members, and the body of death, &c.

1. The principle and root of sin and evil, the flesh with its lusts. The Apostle meaneth (pardon the phrase) a spiritual flesh, not that of the body, but the minde. The immortal souls of men, through their Apostasie from God, the blessed source, and original of all goodness, are become carnal,