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The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preached at the merchant's lecture in…The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preach'd at the merchant's lecture in…
The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preached at the merchant's lecture in Broadstreet / by John Howe ...The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preach'd at the merchant's lecture in Broadstreet / by John Howe ...
London: printed by J. A. for Tho. Parkhurt, 1693
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE CARNALITY OF Religious Contention.
Gal. V. xvi. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
THE last time I spake to you from these Words, having largely opened before the Import of [Walking in the Spirit,] I undertook to show you how the Flesh here is to be understood, against the Lusts whereof such walking in the ⟨p. 2⟩Spirit is the prescribed Remedy. In the General you have been told, that Flesh is here to be taken morally, and in that Latitude, as to signify all sorts of moral Evil, or the general Depravedness of our Corrupt Nature: For though sometimes in the moral Acceptation the Sense is limited (as hath formerly been showed) to grosser Sins, in contradistinction to more refined, as 2 Cor. 7. 1. and 1 John 2. 16. yet sometimes also it is so far extended, as to signify all Sins, as Col. 2. 11. compared with Rom. 6. 6. And in this Context it is plain the Apostle comprehends Sins of both these sorts under this one Expression.