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8. Such soldiers the Apostolic
trumpet enkindles for battle with that sound, “Therefore let
not,” saith he, “sin reign in your mortal body to obey its
lusts; nor yield your members weapons of unrighteousness unto sin;
but yield yourselves unto God, as living in place of dead, and your
members weapons of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not rule
over you. For ye are not under the law, but under Grace.”1830
And in
another place, “Therefore,” saith he, “brethren, we are
debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye shall
live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if by the Spirit ye shall
mortify the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live. For as many as are
led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.”1831
This
therefore is the business in hand, so long as this our mortal life
under Grace lasts, that sin, that is the lust of sin, (for this he
in this place calls by the name of sin,) reign not in this our
mortal body. But it is then shown to reign, if obedience be yielded
to its desires. There is therefore in us lust of sin, which must
not be suffered to reign; there are its desires, which we must not
obey, lest obeying it reign over us. Wherefore let not lust usurp
our members, but let Continence claim them for herself; that they
be weapons of righteousness unto God, that they be not weapons of
unrighteousness unto sin; for thus sin shall not rule over us. For
we are not under the Law, which indeed commandeth what is good yet
giveth it not: but we are under Grace, which, making us to love
that which the Law commands, is able to rule over the
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