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The combat between the flesh and spirit. As also the woeful with-drawing of the…The combate between the flesh and spirit. As also the wofull with-drawing of the…
The combat between the flesh and spirit. As also the woeful with-drawing of the Spirit of God, with the causes thereof: and walking in, and after the Spirit, together with the blessedness thereof. Being the sum and substance of XXVII. sermons: preached a little before his death, by that faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of the Gospel at Lawrence Jury London. To which is added the Christians directory tending to direct him in the various conditions that God may cast him into. In XV. sermons.The combate between the flesh and spirit. As also the wofull with-drawing of the Spirit of God, with the causes thereof: and walking in, and after the Spirit, together with the blessednesse thereof. Being the summe and substance of XXVII. sermons: preached a little before his death, by that faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of the Gospel at Lawrence Jury London. To which is added the Christians directory tending to direct him in the various conditions that God may cast him into. In XV. sermons.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for John Rothwell, 1654
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GEN. 6. verse 3. And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
GEN. 6. verse 3. And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not alwayes strive with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his dayes shall be an hundred and twenty yeers.
This chapter contains in it two parts. 1. Gods determination to destroy the world by a deluge. 2. Gods provision that he made in this general judgement to save Noah and his family by preparing an Ark.
THis chapter containes in it two parts. 1. Gods determination to destroy the world by a deluge. 2. Gods provision that he made in this general judgement to save Noah and his family by preparing an Arke.
The text is under the first head, Gods determination to destroy the world by a flood. Touching which judgement, the procuring cause is here laid down, When men begun to increase in number, (by reason of Polygamy first practised by Lamech) they increased in sin, and therefore God will decrease the number of the world, that he may decrease the sins of the world. The particular sin here specified, why God would destroy the world, is laid down in the second vers. where it is said, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose. By the sons of God here spoken of, 1cannot be meant the Angels, as Tertullian and some other of the Ancients thought, (though it is true elsewhere they are called by this name.) Christ speaking of Angels, says of them,