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But the church is the body of Christ, Colossians 1:24.This implies, they say, that its members are washed from all filthiness.Otherwise it will follow that Christ and Belial are incorporated with each other.
No, that will not follow.From the truth that those who are the mystical body of Christ still feel the flesh lusting against the Spirit, it does not follow that Christ has any fellowship with the devil, or with that sin which he enables them to resist and overcome.
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5. “But the church is the body of Christ, Col. i. 24. This implies, that its members are washed from all filthiness. Otherwise it will follow, that Christ and Belial are incorporated with each other.”
Nay, it will not follow from hence, “Those who are the mystical body of Christ, still feel the flesh lusting against the Spirit,” that Christ has any fellowship with the devil, or with that sin which he enables them to resist and overcome.