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Nay, where sin hath received its deadly wound, and is in part abated, yet the work of mortification is not to be laid aside^*. The Apostle persuades the believing Romans •o mortify the deeds of the flesh, Rom. 8. 13. In the best of Saints there is something needs mortifying; much pride, envy, passion; therefore mortification ⟨p. 19⟩is called crucifixion, Gal. 5. 24. which is not done suddenly: every day some limb of the body of death must drop off^*. Nothing harder than a Rock (saith Cyril) yet in the clefts thereof some weed or other will fasten its roots. None stronger than a Believer, yet do what he can, sin will fasten its roots in him, and spring out sometimes by inordinate desires. There is something needs mortifying. Hence it was St. Paul ³did [Greek or Hebrew], beat down his body, by prayer, watching, fasting, 1 Cor. 9. 27.

Nay, where sin hath received its deadly wound, and is in part abated, yet the work of mortification is not to be laid aside^*. The Apostle perswades the believing Romans •o mortifie the deeds of the flesh, Rom. 8. 13. In the best of Saints there is something needs mortifying; much pride, envy, passion; therefore mortification ⟨p. 19⟩is called crucifixion, Gal. 5. 24. which is not done suddenly: every day some limb of the body of death must drop off