Alive from the dead
Such a faith as this cannot fail to show evidently the power of him who inspires it, by delivering his children from the yoke of sin, and purging their consciences from dead works; by strengthening them so that they are no longer constrained to obey sin in the desires of it; but instead of yielding their members to it as instruments of unrighteousness, they now yield themselves entirely to God, as those who are alive from the dead (Romans 6:13).
1771 text
8. Such a faith as this, cannot fail to shew evidently the power of him that inspires it, by delivering his children from the yoke of sin, and purging their consciences from dead works: by strengthning them so, that they are no longer constrained to obey sin in the desires thereof; but instead of yielding their members unto it as instruments of unrighteousness, they now yield themselves entirely unto God, as those that are alive from the dead.
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Sermon 17 in the 1771 Works. Romans 2:29. Saint Mary's, Oxford, 1 January 1733.
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