A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Well, but what Members are these, it may be they are only vanity and inconstancy of Thoughts, levity and unfixedness of Affections, deadness and heaviness of Heart, and such other less Sins, that should they be perfectly free from, they should be perfectly Holy: No, says the Apostle, these Members are the big Limbs of the Old Man, they are Fornication, Uncleanness, Inordinate Affections, Evil Concupiscence, and Covetousness. And in verse 8. he Exhorts them again to put off all these things, Anger, Wrath, Malice, Blasphemy, ⟨p. 214⟩Filthy Communication, and Lying, and so he goes on reckoning up foul and horrid Sins, and Exhorts them to Mortify these Sins who were to appear with Christ in Glory, those who never Lived in them, not at least after their Conversion; is it not strange, that such eminent Christians as these were, should need Exhortations against such foul Sins? Why, there's many a Person in a state of Nature that would count their Morals much wronged, if you should be officiously importunate with them not to commit Adultery, or Blasphemy, not to be Covetous, or Drunkards, or the like, this they would look upon as an Injury done to them, that you should suspect such things as these are of them, would not they say, as Hazael did to the Prophet, What are thy Servants dogs, that they should do such great things as these are? But the Apostle knew that the inclinations of the best were too strong, even to those Sins that a perfect Moralist would think scorn that they should be suspected of, and therefore he Exhorts them with all earnestness, and frequent importunity, to Mortify such foul Sins as these are.

Well, but what Members are these, it may be they are only vanity and inconstancy of Thoughts, levity and unfixedness of Affections, deadness and heaviness of Heart, and such other less Sins, that should they be perfectly free from, they should be perfectly Holy: No, says the Apostle, these Members are the big Limbs of the Old Man, they are Fornication, Ʋncleanness, Inordinate Affections, Evil Concupiscence, and Covetuousness. And in verse 8. he Exhorts them again to put off all these things, Anger, Wrath, Malice, Blasphemy, ⟨p. 214⟩Filthy Communication, and Lying, and so he goes on reckoning up foul and horrid Sins, and Exhorts them to Mortifie these Sins who were to appear with Christ in Glory, those who never Lived in them, not at least after their Conversion; is it not strange, that such eminent Christians as these were, should need Exhortations against such foul Sins? Why, there's many a Person in a state of Nature that would count their Morals much wronged, if you should be officiously importunate with them not to commit Adultery, or Blasphemy, not to be Covetous, or Drunkards, or the like, this they would look upon as an Injury done to them, that you should suspect such things as these are of them, would not they say, as Hazael did to the Prophet, What are thy Servants dogs, that they should do such great things as these are? But the Apostle knew that the inclinations of the best were too strong, even to those Sins that a perfect Moralist would think scorn that they should be suspected of, and therefore he Exhorts them with all earnestness, and frequent importunity, to Mortifie such foul Sins as these are.