| Edward Cooper - 1819 - 416 pages
...conflict in the Christian's soul. " With the mind he serves the law of Christ. But he finds 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." And to such a height is this... | |
| Francis Atterbury (bp. of Rochester.) - 1820 - 358 pages
...sorrows, perplexities and troubles, that attend him. He finds (for St. Paul himself owns that he found) a law 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. vi. 23. He has unruly... | |
| John Bowdler - 1820 - 418 pages
...temptation, a moderate sorrow, is often sufficient to fill him with distress and perplexity ; that he " finds a law in his members warring against the law of his mind, so that he cannot do the things he would*." Real spirituality of mind is one of the last and highest... | |
| 1821 - 790 pages
...Now, can the man who is carnal, and sold under sin, who hath no power in him to do any good, who finds a 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, call God and the Church to... | |
| Joseph Milner, Rev. Isaac Milner - 1821 - 480 pages
...him, and that though 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. This makes him often cry out,... | |
| Jesse Appleton - 1822 - 448 pages
...reason and the divine law, or deny, that the latter is holy, just, and good ; but he " sees another law in his members, warring against the law of his mind, and bringing liin'i into captivity to the law of sin and death." The anxiety, felt by persons in these... | |
| Henry Martyn - 1822 - 386 pages
...by fancy: because though pure, as far as he is renewed in the spirit of his mind, he finds another law in his members warring against the law of his mind. And again, though holy in all his conduct, he is among creatures who have no taste for holiness; and though... | |
| Martha Kenney - 1822 - 526 pages
...directing and leading " him one way, whilst his appetites and " passions hurry him the other ; the law " in his members, warring against the law " of his mind, and for the most part bring" ing him into captivity ; he neither ap" proving what he does, nor finding... | |
| Jesse Appleton - 1822 - 452 pages
...reason and the divine law, or deny, that the latter is holy, just, and good ; but he " sees another law in his members, warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin and death." The anxiety, felt by persons in these circumstances,... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1823 - 590 pages
...When he would do good, evil, very frequently at least, will be present with him ; and he will find a law in his members, warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him under captivity. The good, which, for some reason or other, he is desirous to do, he will... | |
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