| Temple Chevallier - 1827 - 454 pages
...imperfections and vices. And every man, even when he attempts to do what he knows to be his duty, often finds a law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity. The good he would he does not, the evil he would not that he does. imperfection of our nature, even... | |
| Joseph Milner - 1827 - 568 pages
...INWAltD MAN, YET WHAT SHALL HE DO WITH THE OTHER LAW IN HIS M EM B KItS WARRING AGAINST THE LAW OF MIS MIND, AND BRINGING HIM INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN, WHICH IS IN HIS MEMBERS^? For thou, Lord, art just, but we have sinned and dealt wickedly, and thy hand is heavy upon us, and... | |
| James Haldane Stewart - 1828 - 500 pages
...present with him ; and though he delights in the law of God after the inward man, he finds another law in his members warring against the law of his...and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin*; and therefore his prayer is, ' Draw me; draw me, O blessed Saviour ; exert thy gracious power; influence... | |
| Edward Irving - 1828 - 820 pages
...from revelation, that there is a law in man's members warring against the law of his mind, and leading him into captivity to the law of sin which is in his members. It is further manifest, that to restrain themselves in some degree is the great work and labour of... | |
| John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 620 pages
...perplexities and troubles, that attend him. 'He finds,' for St. Paul himself owns that he.found, ' alaw in his members, warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him,' or endeavouring to bring him, ' into captivity to the law of sin.' [Rom. vii. 28.] He has unruly appetites... | |
| 1822 - 688 pages
...exercises of humiliation and repentance. While he delights in the law of God after the inward man, he finds a law in his members warring against the law of his mind. Often wbtn he' would do good, evil is present with him. He adopts the apostle's complaint, "wretched... | |
| 1828 - 688 pages
...had transgressed no law." And yet, strange to tell, he is represented, at this very time, as " having a law in his members, warring against the law of his mind"!! Will the reader pause for a single moment, and contemplate the situation of our first father, as it... | |
| 1828 - 678 pages
...had transgressed no law." And yet, strange to tell, he is represented, at this very time, as " having a law in his members, warring against the law of his mind"!! Will the reader pause for a single moment, and contemplate the situation of our first father, as it... | |
| Isabella Marshall Graham - 1828 - 316 pages
...then, he, like others, had to continue the warfare between grace and corruption ; like others, found a law in his members warring against the law of his mind, so that the thing that he would, he did not, and that which, he would not, that he did. Notwithstanding,... | |
| Edward Craig - 1828 - 378 pages
...God after the inward man. That holiness is really hie admiration and his joy. But he finds a contrary law in his members, warring against the law of his mind ; and occasionally, therefore, he has melancholy and humbling proof in his own errors, that it is by grace... | |
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