...after the inward man ; " here is the result of regeneration. "But he sees another law in his members, warring against the law of his mind, and bringing...captivity to the law of sin which is in his members ; " here are the remains of his old nature. So situated, he could1 never find joy in what is true of...

...he delights in the law of God after the inward man, he sees another * Eph. v. 27. law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin, so that in the anguish of his spirit he exclaims with the apostle, " O wretched man that I am ! who...

...own inward depravity, — the " law in his members which wars against the law of his mind, and brings him into captivity to the law of sin which is in his members." It is this, that gives strength to every temptation, and renders him an easy prey to the spiritual adversaries...

...after holiness, but he finds that he has *" a law in his members warring against the law of his mind, bringing him into captivity to the law of sin which is in his members." It is left to religious knowledge alone to tell us not merely that there is a God, but who He is, and what...

...him, and render his life a warfare, and his progress slow and difficult. He finds a law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin, preventing him from doing the good that he would do. Ro.vli. This law of sin checks his aspirations...

...iniquities; and Paul, eminent as he was for his devotedness to Christ, complained of a law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin and death. Neither David nor Paul, then, was upright in the same sense that Adam was, or that glorified...

...whether known or unknown, is in every son and daughter of Adam. Paul calls it 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, my dear friends, often causes you and me, who are in this tabernacle,...

...what the theologians call fames peccati, or what S. Paul termed "a law in his members in conflict with the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to * "The Case of Pope Honorius Reconsidered," p. 25, note. t In Act XI L Cone. VI. (Labbe, t. vti. p. 963.)...

...fact of guilt, but the carnal mind which is enmity against God,- — the law in man's members waning against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin that is in his members. We find that when the Son of God came to be the needed victim, and to put away...

...it. Nevertheless, the believer, who is the subject of this work, finds another law in his members, warring against the law of his mind, and bringing...captivity to the law of sin which is in his members (Rom. vii. 23). He finds the effects of these opposite laws in himself, and that as long as he lives...