A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

The Apostle in the verses before admonished them about the use of their liberty, that it should not be turned into licentiousness, but that they make love the Rule thereof. For though in respect of the right of my Christian liberty, my conscience is to regard none but God, yet the use and exercise of it must be regulated by love and prudence, according as the edification of our brother doth require.

THe Apostle in the verses before admonished them about the use of their liberty, that it should not be turned into licentiousness, but that they make love the Rule thereof. For though in respect of the right of my Christian liberty, my conscience is to regard none but God, yet the use and exercise of it must be regulated by love and prudence, according as the edification of our brother doth require.

As a remedy therefore to refrain from all excess therein, he giveth us an excellent precept, with an emphatical Introduction thereunto, [This I say then] that is, This is the sum, the main, the all in all in these cases.

As a remedy therefore to refrain from all excess therein, he giveth us an excellent precept, with an emphatical Introduction thereunto, [This I say then] that is, This is the summe, the main, the all in all in these cases.

Then you have the Antidote it self, Walk in the Spirit. The only way to prevent all those importunate temptations of the flesh, is to give up your selves to the Spirit, to obtain the direction and illumination thereof, as also the inclination and powerful operation of it, whereby we may be established in that which is good, To know what is good, and then to be enabled to do it, which if done, he declareth the blessed effect and issue thereof, Ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Some (as Beza) readeth this imperatively, because of the [Greek or Hebrew], but the Text he instanceth in is not parallel to this. And Grotius bringeth in several places, where this [Greek or Hebrew] relateth to the future. This then is the happy issue of a man, who keepeth wholly to the Spirit of God enlightening and working by the Word, that he shall get dominion over the lusts of the flesh, He shall not fulfil them: He doth not say, he shall not have them, he shall not feel, and perceive them working in him, for that cannot be in this life; only he shall