This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...This thought is confirmed and established by the following verses. The Christian, however, as the Apostle repeatedly says, is free from such complete dominion. (3) "Ver. 21 presents the general rule or the uniform experience of the life of the person under consideration as this: that when he desires to do what is good, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...This thought is confirmed and established by the following verses. The Christian, however, as the Apostle repeatedly says, is free from such complete dominion. (3) "Ver. 21 presents the general rule or the uniform experience of the life of the person under consideration as this: that when he desires to do what is good, evil is present with him; and ver. 23 declares, as the evidence that such is the rule, the fact that the law in the members (the appetites and passions) overpowers the law of the mind and brings the man into captivity to itself. But this is neither the uniform experience nor the general rule of the regenerate life. The true Christian may sometimes yield to temptation and fall into sin; he may even become aapmKu. But he is never oap/avog; he is never sold under sin as an absolute slave; comp. ch. vi. The rfoi-P.of uiiaprlat; is not a Christian, (b) The words, which seem, at the first view of them, to favor a reference to the regenerate person, are easily reconciled with the other reference, when the passago is carefully examined. It may be noticed, (1) that the iyu may be ruled over by two masters and involves two elements. The two masters are sin, and righteousness or God; the two elements are the conscience and the passions, the better and worse side of the man. These two elements are always in the iyu, but may, either of them, be more or less active, or, on the other hand, more or less dormant. When the man becomes convinced of sin, and is roused to a vigorous struggle to free himself from its power--and it is of Buch a condition that the Apostle is here speaking--he finds the two elements in conflict with each other. But he is so far under the dominion of the sin which holds him as a slave, that he does, not what his better nature wis...
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