Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1875 Excerpt: ... LECTURE III. THE ORGAN OF SIN. Facillimum est exsecrari carnem, difficillimum autem non carnaliter sapere. AUG. De Vera Rel. xx. 40. THE ORGAN OF SIN. %ii not sin: %rtfoK reign in gonr mortal bobg, ijrat gi sjjodo obcg it in % lusts tljraof.--Rom. vi. 12. The mortal body is at once the seat of sin and the Lect. III. organ of sin. Sin has usurped possession of it, and uses it for its own lawless purposes. And hence S. Paul calls it the body of sin: the body, that is, in Rom. vi. 6. which sin works and by which sin works. He also, and as equivalent thereto, calls it the body of death. Rom. vii. 24. Yet, of course, in such expressions there is always an inclusive reference to the indwelling soul.1 Man's body, says the Apostle elsewhere, is a psychical body 1 Cor. xv. (rZfj.x J/uixov), and man himself a living soul (u% v-ancl £ora), a being with an immaterial as well as material Gen-"-7part, a being that thinks, discerns, wills. Now, originally, the harmony between man's body and soul was complete. The body was the efficient, yet subor Lect. dinate, handmaid of the soul; the soul the willing, alacrious, loving handmaid of God. But the Fall brought about a mournful change. The body became the seducer and taskmaster of the soul, and both soul and body lost their glory. Man's carnal nature, in fact, attained the supremacy. So completely was this the case, that the designation which the Holy One gave to the fallen race of man Gen. vi. 3. was Flesh. The Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he.also is flesh.... T. 12. God looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. Man no longer deserved to be called after his higher nature, no nor, properly speaking, after his bodily nature, bu...
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