A81235:172
Correction, instruction or, a treatise of afflictions
Correction, instruction or, a treatise of afflictions: first conceived by way of private meditations: afterward digested into certain sermons, preached at Aldermanbury. And now published for the help and comfort of humble suffering Christians. By Tho. Case, M.A. sometimes student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. now preacher of the Gospel in London.Correction, instruction or, a treatise of afflictions: first conceived by way of private meditations: afterward digested into certain sermons, preach'd at Aldermanbury. And now published for the help and comfort of humble suffering Christians. By Tho. Case, M.A. sometimes student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. now preacher of the Gospel in London.
London: printed by J.M. for Luke Fawn, 1652London: printed by J.M. for Luke Favvn, 1652
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Fourthly, 1By virtue of the Teachings of God they are enabled to maintain opposition against all that opposition which they find in their own spirits: As the flesh lusteth against the spirit, so the spirit lusteth against the flesh; 2i. e. the spiritual regenerate part doth as naturally rise up and make war against the flesh, and fleshly motions, as the flesh doth against the Teachings of God in the spiritual part: Opposition is not maintained only by precept and rules, and an extrinsical policy, but naturally, and by virtue of an inward antipathy; the spirit lusteth: The spiritual opposition is as suitable and agreeable to the new Nature, as the sinful opposition is to the old nature. Hence is the life of a Believer called a wrestling, a warfare, Eph. 6.12.
Fourthly, 1By vertue of the Teachings of God they are enabled to maintain opposition against all that opposition which they finde in their own spirits: As the flesh lusteth against the spirit, so the spirit lusteth against the flesh; 2i. e. the spiritual regenerate part doth as naturally rise up and make war against the flesh, and fleshly motions, as the flesh doth against the Teachings of God in the spiritual part: Opposition is not maintain'd onely by precept and rules, and an extrinsecal policy, but natually, and by vertue of an inward antipathy; the spirit lusteth: The spritual opposition is as suitable and agreeable to the new Nature, as the sinful opposition is to the old nature. Hence is the life of a Believer call'd a wrestling, a warfare, Eph. 6.12.
- 14. Maintain opposition against opposition. Gal. 5.17.
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