Author : William Romaine
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230392134
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (921 download)
Book Synopsis A Treatise Upon the Walk of Faith Volume 2 by : William Romaine
Download or read book A Treatise Upon the Walk of Faith Volume 2 written by William Romaine and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 edition. Excerpt: ...so it was to Paul. Thy case is not singular. It is common to every soldier who is fighting under the banner of Christ. This cross is unavoidable, because it is in thy bosom. It is thine inmost self--thy whole nature, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts. Thou hast not an atom of thy body, nor the least motion or stirring of any faculty in thy soul, but sin is in it; and therefore it is capable of being a plague to the new man. The Holy Ghost speaks thus of the inward warfare: " This I say, then---walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh: for the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would." These words are addressed to the Galatians, who were believers, and called into the liberty of the Gospel, but by false teaching they were under a great temptation. They had begun in the spirit, but they thought of being perfected in the flesh. They set out with salvation by faith, but expected salvation at last, by works. Among other arguments to convince them of their mistake, here is one unanswerable; namely, No works of ours can save a sinner, but such as are perfect; no works of ours are perfect, therefore they cannot save a sinner. And that none of them are perfect, is certain; because in every one of them there is something of the flesh, of corrupt nature, as well as something of the spirit and of spiritual nature. These two are contrary as life and death, and they are always in action, every moment the one lusting against the other: so that no believer can do the things which he would, so perfectly as the holy law requires. How grievous must this inward cross be to a real believer: for it...
