...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 him into captivity to the Taw of sin which is in his members (Rom. vii. 23). He finds the effects of these opposite laws in himself,...

...inflowings of the divine love, that he may be stronger and better. Like Paul, he finds a law in his members warring against the law of his mind and 'bringing him into captivity, and not in the consciousness of his own strength and ability to do or not to do, but rather in humility...

...Though he may " delight in the law of God after the inner man, he will see 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. 21-23. But vve know that Job was strengthened for his work, or he could not otherwise have...

...law, he discovers the very principle of his nature to be all wrong. There is " a law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing...captivity to the law of sin, which is in his members ;" which has selfishness for its basis, and corruption for its object. It is in himself. Hence the...

...Condemn the wrong, — and yet the wrong I do." And why so ? Because there is a law in his members, warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin and death. What is he to do then ? Arise, and call upon God, who is able to save and strong to deliver:...

...carnal, sold under sin,' Rom. vii. 14 ; and therefore he described the law of evil within his nature warring against the law of his mind, ' and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin which was in his members.' There was therefore a captivity resulting from the sale. But it is not only...

...himself, and could " see another law " in his members — the natural tendency of ttie flesh — " warring against the law of his mind, and bringing...captivity to the law of sin which is in his members " (Rom. vii. 23). See also Note on 2 Cor. xii. 7. Happily the Christian philosopher understands this...

...his own soul the lineaments of the Divine Image, he is keenly conscious of another law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin — and thus awed and attracted by the beauty of holiness, yet dragged down by the burden of a sinful...

...made ! While he delights in the law of God after the inward man, he sees another 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, " Q wretched man that I am ! who...

...the Apostle know by experience the reality of the two antagonist natures — " the law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of siu which was in his members " (Eom. vii. 2 3) : the fightings without and the fears within ; — the...