A53715:28
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers
Of the mortification of sin in believers: the 1. Necessity, 2. Nature, and 3. Means of it. With a resolution of sundry cases of conscience thereunto belonging. By John Owen, D.D. a servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospel.
London: printed for Nathanael Ponder, 1668
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.
4. The Duty it self, mortify the deeds of the Body; is nextly to be remarked.
4. The Duty it self, mortifie the deeds of the Body; is nextly to be remarked.
Three things are here to be enquired into, 1. What is meant by the Body. 2. What by the deeds of the Body. 3. What by Mortifying of them.
1. The Body in the close of the verse, is the same with the Flesh in the beginning. If ye live after the flesh, ye shall dye, but if ye Mortify the deeds of the body; that is, of the flesh. It is that which the Apostle hath all along discoursed of, under the name of the flesh, which is evident from the prosecution of the Antithesis between the spirit and the flesh, before and after. The Body then here is taken for that Corruption and Pravity of our Natures, whereof the Body in a great part is the Seat and Instrument: The very Members of the Body, being made servants unto Unrighteousness thereby, Rom. 6.19. It is Indwelling Sin, the corrupted Flesh, or Lust that is intended. Many Reasons might be given of this metonymical expression, that I shall not now insist on. The body here is the same with [Greek or Hebrew], and [Greek or Hebrew], the Old man, and the body of Sin, Rom. 6.6. or it may synecdochically express the whole person considered as corrupted, and the seat of Lusts, and distempered Affections.
1. The Body in the close of the verse, is the same with the Flesh in the beginning. If ye live after the flesh, ye shall dye, but if ye Mortifie the deeds of the body; that is, of the flesh. It is that which the Apostle hath all along discoursed of, under the name of the flesh, which is evident from the prosecution of the Antithesis between the spirit and the flesh, before and after. The Body then here is taken for that Corruption and Pravity of our Natures, whereof the Body in a great part is the Seat and Instrument: The very Members of the Body, being made servants unto Unrighteousness thereby,