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M.
TV.I
FEESH AND S.PTRIT, &C.
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that
are
released
from
their
flesh,
which once
they
had
so many,
and
so
sore combats
with
!
Their
flesh,
which
heretofore prisoned
them,
and pained
them,
and
drew
them often
away
from
God,
contrary
to
that
heavenly,
bias
that
was
put
upon
their
souls
by
God
the Sanc-
tifier
!"
But
we
rejoice
in
hope
that
our
turn
shall come too.
There
is
a
day
of
deliverance
from this sinful
flesh
pro-
vided for
us.
All
our
times
are
in
the hand
of God
;
and
the
best
time,
is
the
time
of our release
from this sinful
companion.
Let our
faith
say,
"
I
read
in the
promises
that
this same
happiness
belongs to
me,
which
the
.saints)
above aré
now
possessed of;
It
is
coming,
it
-is
coming
as
fast
as
time
and the heavens
can
move,
as fast
as
days
and:
hours
can remove
out
of
the
way."
Then
we
shall
have
no
flesh
for the
world to lodge one
temptation
in,
nor
for Satan
to
make
use
of
as an
engine
of
his
malice,
to,
batter
the
constancy and
duty
of
our souls; then
we
shall
be
freed
from all
those methods
of
injury
to
our
spirits, which
we
receive
now by
means
of
the
flesh.
Thus
at
the
day
of
our death
is
derived
a
glorious li-
berty,
and thence
we
date our
joys;
but our
joys rise
high
indeed,
if
our faith
can
but
look
a
little farther,
and
take a prospect
of
that
day,
when
our
flesh
shall be
raised in
perfect
holiness,
and
our
spirits completely
holy,
shall be
rejoined
to
it;
then
it
shall be no more,
true,
that
flesh
and
spirit lust
against each other, and
these
two
are
contrary;
for
flesh
and
spirit
shall
both
draw
one
way,
both
lead
us
towards
our
divine original,
and
the first
Father
of
our
beings.
Then
the
law in
our
members,
and
the
law in
our
minds, shall
concur
toge-
ther
to influence
us
to
perfect
holiness
;
then, when
our
spirits
shall
be
like
God,
the first and best
of
Spirits
;
and
when
our
flesh
shall be like the
flesh
of the
Son
of
Grid,
that great pattern of
a
glorified body.
And this day
will
surely come, for
our Redeemer
with
his
body
is
glorified in heaven,
and
he sits
there
as
a
pattern of
our-bodies to
be
glorified, and
a pledge
to as-
sure
us
of it
too.
O come the day when he shall
change
these
bodies
of our
vileness
into
the
form of
the body
of
his glory
!
and he can
easily do it,
by
that
po«
er
where-
by
he can
subdue
all things
to himself,
Phil.
iii.
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