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Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 7:23

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Romans7:23

23. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members .

i. e. A Law quite different from the Law of God mentioned in the foregoing Verse. By the Law in the Members understand natural Corruption, which like a Law Commandeth and Inclineth by sensual rewards and punishments; and by the Law in the mind understand a principle of Grace, which as a Law, as well as the other commanding and inclining to that which is good. The Law in the members, and the Law in the mind, is the same that is called Flesh and Spirit, Gal. 5.17. These two Laws and Principles, are in all regenerate persons, and are directly contrary to one another: hence there is continual warring and combating betwixt them, as is exprest in both these places, as also in Iames 4.1. 1 Pet. 2.11.

i. e. Drawing and hurrying me to the commission of Sin, against my will and consent. He pursues the metaphor, the Flesh doth not only War in the regenerate, but many times it overcomes and hath success. vid. v. 15.

i. e. to its self. The antecedent is put in the room of the relative, see Gen. 9.16. and alibi. the Law in the members, and the Law of Sin, in the members, is the same.

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