...Epistle to the Romans : wherein he speaks of ' one law in his flesh or members, warring against another law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin,' affirming that ' the' carnal mind is enmity against God.' Nothing in all the Scriptures seems so strange...

...to the utmost extent; but his wishes are thwarted by his corrupt flesh. 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. And it has pleased God thus to leave the believer subject to vanity for a...

...right, and I hate every false way." Yet still he falls into false ways ; he finds another law in his members warring against the law of his mind and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin. All his good is mixed with evil : selfishness and vanity pervade every speech ; and his best exertions...

...that came to Paul, so that sin revived and he died ; and also, what law it was that Paul saw in his members, warring against the law of his mind, and...captivity to the law of sin which was in his members ? These laws must be distinctly set forth by him ; for, if these things are not known by experience,...

...his misery, and cries out, " God be merciful to me, a sinner ?" or of him who, feeling the law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin which dwells in his members, exclaims, " O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body...

...he did ; and that though he delighted in the law of God in the inward man, he saw another law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin." This is indeed the common language of mankind, and it is easily understood. But as it cannot be used...

...he did ; and that though he delighted in the law of God in the inward man, he saw another law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin.b This is indeed the common language of mankind, and it is easily understood. But as it cannot...

...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...

...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 mind, 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...

...enjoyment. When faith is not in lively exercise, nature will be busy. St. Paul saw this law in his members, warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin; but he was strengthened to ' serve with the mind the law of God.' And so we ought to hope it will be...