 | 1804 - 498 pages
...committed some great and notorious sins ; for there is a law in every Christian's members, in this life, warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin, which is hi his members. It is sufficient to prove, that he has a law in his mind, against that in... | |
 | 1814
...disciples to take up their cross ; the Apostle of the Gentiles, who knew much of the divine life, found a law in his members warring against the law of his mind : and though some may imagine to themselves a certain sinless perfection, this is but one of those works... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 454 pages
...might be truly said of the best of men in this world of imperfection. The apostle Paul himself found a law in his members, warring against the law of his mind ; and undoubtedly that remaining fleshly law, warred against the law of God, and against the love of God.... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 448 pages
...saith in vain, The spirit which dwellcth in us, lusteth to envy ?" And the apostle Paul complains of a law in his members, warring against the law of his mind: a law of sin, working death : a law that when he would do good, evil was present with him. By all which... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1804 - 320 pages
...have Paul's personal experience of it recorded in his Epistle to the Romans'1. He says he saw another law in his members warring against the law of his...and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin which was in his members. This caused him most bitterly to exclaim, " O wretched man that I am." As... | |
 | 1806 - 416 pages
...that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death ?" What can he mean, when he speaks of " a law in his members, warring against the law of his mind ;" and affirms, " to will is present with me, but to perform that which is good I find not." There is no person,... | |
 | James Thomson (minister at Quarrelwood.) - 1808 - 592 pages
...it, to annoy and assualt it; to obstruct and distract its exercises; and to mar its peace. Paul found a law in his members warring against the law of his mind, causing him to exclaim, " O wretched man that I am." Its dominion, however, is broken, and it is condemned... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1809 - 540 pages
...though he be delighted WITH THE LAW OF GOD IN THE INWARD MAW, YET \fHAT SHALL HE DO WITH THE OTHER LAW IN HIS MEMBERS WARRING AGAINST THE LAW OF HIS...INTO cAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN, WHICH IS IN HIS MEMBERS?J For thou, Lord, art just, but we have sinned and dealt wickedly, and thy hand is heavy upon... | |
 | Henry Smith - 1809 - 212 pages
...inward struggle between inclination and duty, enquire with St. Paul how it comes to pass that he sees a law in his members warring against the law of his...and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin ? This is a case far from being new or uncommon. The utmost man can pretend to, is not to fall totally... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1810 - 540 pages
...very account 288 The Life and Death he is humbled, ashamed, and grieved. He too often sees another law in his members, warring against the law of his...captivity to the law of sin,, which is in his members. But he condemns himself even for those deviations, which he allows not: and, were he able, would gladly... | |
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... he delights in the law of God after the inward man, yet that there is another law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin, which is in his members. 
