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Venning's remains, or, Christ's school consisting of four classes of Christians, I. babes, II.…
Venning's remains, or, Christ's school consisting of four classes of Christians, I. babes, II. little children, III. young men, IV. fathers : with their several characteristical differences and attainments, also the doctrines proper to be taught to each of them : being the substance of many sermons / preached by Ralph Venning and fitted by him for the press before his death.
London: printed for John Hancock senior and junior, 1675
Class 3 › Chapter 5 › Section 4: One Temptation more which they undergo and conquer too.
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3. If the Text may not be restrained to that, I can say further that I do not live in sin nor make a trade of sin as thou dost, I am no sin-maker as thou art: I sin not as they that are of thee who workest in the Children of disobedience that they may fulfil the lusts and wills of the flesh, Ephes. 2.1,—3. and of such (thou canst not deny but) the quoted Texts do speak.
3. If the Text may not be restrain'd to that, I can say further that I do not live in sin nor make a trade of sin as thou dost, I am no sin-maker as thou art: I sin not as they that are of thee who workest in the Children of disobedience that they may fulfil the lusts and wills of the flesh, Ephes. 2.1,—3. and of such (thou canst not deny but) the quoted Texts do speak.
4. I can say yet more in a true sense, as the Apostle doth, Rom. 7.15,—20. that 'tis not I (who am born of God) that sin, but sin that dwelleth in me: though I with my fl•sh may (alas that I do!) serve the Law of sin, yet thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord, with the mind I my self do serve the Law of God, Rom. 7.25. There is therefore no condemnation to me who am in Christ Jesus, and walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, Rom. 8.8. Though I (wretch that I am!) may be sins Captive yet not ••s Subject that I should obey it in the ⟨p. 353⟩lusts thereof; sin may domineer but hath no dominion over me, because I am not under the Law, but under Grace,