...in its .nature, because the child of God would serve and love God always and wholly ; but he finds " a law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and, too often, bringing him into captivity to the law of sin, which, is in his members." Ah ! how...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin ? This is a case far from being new or uncommon....

...do the things that he would." He " loves the " law of God after the inner man, but finds ano" ther law in his members warring against the " law of his...he would do " good evil is present with him." He is like a man who has a journey of importance to take, and which he is in haste to finish; but, through...

...works do follow him." He has no longer any reason to mourn over his frailty and sin: he no longer feels a law in his members warring against the law of his mind. Elected a citizen of Zion, he is presented blameless before the throne. Every stain that once tarnished...

...something of a perverse tendency in the constitution of every one that exists ; that there is some " law in his members, warring against the law of his mind, so that the evil which he would not, that he does." Conceive, then, an individual to labour under this stimulating...

...these he long* prayed, and at times thought he greatly prevailed : but to his sorrow he still feels, that when he would do good, evil is present with him. He often envied those who had been kept from the vices and follies of childhood and youth ; judging that...

...dwelling in him— -of his finding a law that when he would do good, evil was present with him— and of a law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin which was in his members. This led him to make that...