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THE POWERS
AND
CONTESTS
OF FLESH A-No
SPIRT'''.
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nian
has sins
of
its
own,
that
it borrows not
immediately
from the
flesh
:
There
is
a
pride
in
the
mind,
arising from
learning, and
intellectual
powers,
and
accomplishments
;
there are vain
and
excessive
desires
of
.human knowledge
there
is
a
sinful curiosity,
prying into
secret futurities
;
there
is
a
glorying
in
self,
a vanity
of
mind,
and self-con-
fidence,
instead of trusting
in
God, and
giving him
the
glory
of
all
:
There
is,
indeed,
a-
secret
dislike
and
aversion to
God and
holiness,
in
the soul of
every
un-
sanctified sinner
;
these are more
spiritual
iniquities.
I might
add
also,
that there
are
several
of
those
sins
which, in some
appearances of
them,
are numbered
among the works
of
the
flesh,
because
they
are
often
excited, and almost
always
increased,
by
the humours
and
ferments of
the
body
;
which yet,
in
some
other opera-
tions
and appearances,
begin
in
the
spirit,.
belong chiefly
to
the soul, and
must
be
called spiritual
sins,
or
lusts
of
the mind
;
such
as
malice
and
envy,
self
-
conceit,
emula-:
tion,
hatred
of
good men,
&c.
which
are doubtless
found
in
the
fallen angels, those evil spirits, who have no
flesh
about
them.
Now
as an
unsanctified soul may
be
some-
times
guilty
.
of
these
when in
the
body, so, when
it
is
dismissed from
flesh, we
must grant,
that it
would
be
filled with all
these iniquities, these
spiritual
lusts,
for
ever,
though none
of
the carnal
sins,
no
appetites to
fleshly
objects, should
follow it
into
the separate state.
But
the
point
which
I
propose to
prove
is
this,
that
though
there
may
be
several
sins
that
arise
chiefly
from
the
mind,
yet there are multitudes
of
disorderly
appetites,
sinful
inclinations and aversions,
as well as
violent im-
moderate tendencies towards
lawful
of
jects,
seated
in
our
animal nature,
in,
our
flesh
and
blood, in this
mortal
part
of our
frame and composition;
wherein
we
are a-kin
to the beasts
that
perish
;
and it
is
by
the
senses,
by
these
sensitive
motions
and
ferments
of
flesh
and blood,
that
the human
soul
is
most
frequently
led into
tempta-
tion.and
sin
:
And more especially
I
may
venture
to
say,
that
tle
soul
of
a
true
christian,
which
is
sanctified by
the
Spirit of
God, and
has
a
new
and
heavenly
temper
and
bias,
and a divine
nature
given it, owes
most
of
its
actual
transgressions
to
the
flesh,
and
the lusts thereof,
to
which
it
is
united
in
the present state.
'There
is
one
objection
that
seems
t1$cessary
to be
an
x.
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