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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 61
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Secondly, As these two selves, or principles are in a man that is regenerate, 1so they do actually oppose and contradict one another. Hence cometh that Christian combat and conflict which the godly find within themselves. ⟨p. 272⟩Not like that of the Heathens, Aristotle's incontinent person, or the Poets Medea, a conflict between reason, and their lusts only. But this opposition is universal and diffusive in every part of the soul. The carnal part in the mind opposeth the spiritual. The carnal part of the will contradicteth the spiritual. So that they have heart against heart, affections against affections. We are not therefore to conceive of these two principles, as dormant and latitant in the soul, but they are as fire and water in the same subject, labouring to expel each other; and according to the three-fold estate or degree, that we may conceive in persons regenerate, so is this fight and congress more or less vehement.
Secondly, As these two selfes, or principles are in a man that is regenerate, 1so they doe actually oppose and contradict one another. Hence cometh that Christian combate and conflict which the godly find within themselves. ⟨p. 272⟩Not like that of the Heathens, Aristotles incontinent person, or the Poets Medea, a conflict between reason, and their lusts only. But this opposition is universal and diffusive in every part of the soul. The carnal part in the mind opposeth the spiritual. The carnal part of the will contradicteth the spiritual. So that they have heart against heart, affections against affections. We are not therefore to conceive of these two principles, as dormant and latitant in the soul, but they are as fire and water in the same subject, labouring to expell each other; and according to the three-fold estate or degree, that we may conceive in persons regenerate, so is this fight and congress more or lesse vehement.
- 12. These two selves oppose one another.2. These two selfs oppose one another.