A54381:1149
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
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.
Remedies against the desires of the flesh are these:1 1. If we consider, that none can be Christs Disciples but those that ⟨p. 167⟩live in a continual self denial, Luke 9. 23. 2. That those that are of the spirit ought always to savour the things of the spirit, Rom. 8. 15. 3. That those which walk after the flesh, shall die, Rom. 8. 13. 4. That, even here; for holiness and righteousness, we ought to walk as Citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, Phil. 3. 20. 5. That our bodies are the Temples of God, 1 Cor. 3. 16. 6. That our Members are Members of Christ, 1 Cor. 6. 15. 7. That we must not grieve the spirit of God which dwelleth in us, 1 Cor. 6. 16. Rom. 8. 9. Eph. 4. 30.
- 1Against the desires of the flesh.
In these temptations by the flesh the fall is, any offence through infirmity, which a man by these temptations of Satan is overtaken withal, Gal 6. 1.