A holy life, the beauty of Christianity, or, An exhortation to Christians to be…

1. Because, as to the being of it, it is seated and rooted in their flesh, and hath its dwelling there. Yea, it hath, and so will have an abiding there, so long as man is on this side that state of perfection, which is not to be enjoyed while we are in the flesh: for in me, ¹that is in my flesh, sin dwells, nor doth any thing else but sin dwell there: for in me, that is in my flesh (said Paul) dwells no good thing, therefore the Apostle must not be understood as if he intended to insinuate that there was a possibility that the nature, and being of sin could be plucked up by the roots, and so cast clean away from us, as to the very nature thereof: no, that will abide with us, for it hath its dwelling in us.

1. Because, as to the being of it, it is seated and rooted in their flesh, and hath its dwelling there. Yea, it hath, and so will have an abiding there, so long as man is on this side that state of perfection, which is not to be injoyed while we are in the flesh: for in me, ¹that is in my flesh, sin dwells, nor doth any thing else but sin dwell there: for in me, that is in my flesh (said Paul) dwells no good thing, therefore the Apostle must not be understood as if he intended to insinuate that there was a possibility that the nature, and being of sin could be pluckt up by the roots, and so cast clean away from us, as to the very nature thereof: no, that will abide with us, for it hath its dwelling in us.

1. 1Rom. 7.

2. And as they cannot depart from the nature of it as such, that is, as they cannot be rid of the being of sin, so neither can they depart from the motions, and stirrings of sin, no more than they can stir from the motions or stirrings of their natural senses, or of their natural reasons: The motions of sin, which