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sin,
in its
principles or operations, they use
the
words
flesh, fleshly,
or carnal,
the
body,
or the members,
with
much
freedom
and frequency.
_St.
Peter
speaks
of
walk-
.
ing
after the flesh;
2
Pet.
ii..ia
of
alluring
men
by
the
lusts
of
the
flesh, 2
Pet.
ii.
18.
of
fleshly
lusts
that
war
against
the soul
;
1
Pet.
ii.
11:
St.
Paul
bids us
mortify
the
deeds
of
the
body
;
Rom:
viii. 13.
and he
calls
the
principle of
sin
the
body
of
death
;
Rom.
vii.
24.
IIe
speaks
of
sin
reigning
in
our mortal
bodies
;
Rom.
vi. 12.
He
places the sinful principles,
which
he
calls
the law
of
sin, in
our
very
members
;
Rom.
vii. 23. And
parti-,
cular
sins
he
calls
our members;
Col.
iii.
5.
And'
in
correspondence
with him
the apostle
James
speaks
of
lusts
that
war in
our members
James
iv.
1.
And
John
and
Jude
make
mention
of
the lusts
of
the
flesh,
and
garments spotted with
the
flesh.
And there are
few
words
more.
frequent
on
St.
Paul's tongue
than
the
word
flesh,
when he would
signify sin
;
the mortification
whereof
he
calls crucifying
the
flesh
with
its affections
and
lusts.;
Gal.
v.
24.
He
names
adultery, fornication;
idolatry,
hatred,
envy,
murder, drunkenness,
revellings,
and
such
like,
the works
of
the
flesh
;
Gal.
v.
19.
Per-
sons
in
a
sinful
state are
said to be
in
the
flesh
;
viii.
8,
9.
A
course of
sinning
is
called sowing to
the
flesh,
living
after
the
flesh,
minding the things
of
the
flesh;
walking after the
flesh,
fulfilling the desires
and
lusts
of
the
flesh,
in
several
parts
of
his
epistles.
But
in
sanctified and unsanctified persons,
sin, in
the
judgment of
St.
Paul,
lies
very
much
in
the
flesh,
as
tö
the
springs,
principles and
occasions
of
it. See
Rom.
.vii. 5,
compared
with
the
18,
and
25 verses.
In
Rom.
vii.
5. St.
Paul
speaks
concerning the natural' and
unre-
generate
state
:
When
we
were in the
flesh,
that
is,
all
flesh,
no
spirit,
that
is,
no
spiritual
life,
then
the motions
of
sin did work
in
our
members, to bring forth
fruit
unto death.
And when
he
speaks concerning himself in
.a
regenerate
state,
at
the
end
of that chapter
he
describes
sin
still
as
having its occasion
and
cause much
seated in
the
flesh.
See verses
18,
and
25.
I
know
that
in me,
that
is,
in
my
flesh,
dwelleth no good thing
;
I
see
another
law in
my
members;
warring,against
the
law
of
my
mind.
With
my
mind
I
serve
the
law
of God, but
with
my flesh
the
law
of
sin.
So
that
considering himself
either
in
a
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