...Wherefore saith the apostle, " P speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh, For as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness...members servants to righteousness, unto holiness." So that we see if a man once give himself up to sin, he will not be satisfied therewith, but will give...

...Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.' And in Romans vi. 20 : ' For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free...now ashamed ? for the end of those things is death.' And 2 Pet ii. 19 : 'While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption...

...God, and to walk mournfully before the Lord of hosts ? Mai. ii. 14. We ought to say with St. Paul, What fruit had ye then in those things, whereof ye...now ashamed? For the end of those things is death, Rom. vi. 21. 2. Consider next how piety influences our reputation. I am aware, that worldly men by...

...sin ? Sin is also a useless thing. " What fruit had ye ?" Said St. Paul to the converted Romans : " What fruit had ye, then, in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?" What profit, honour, or pleasure did ye find in your former sinful courses, even while pursuing them...

...reproaching the Romans with the shameful irregularity of their past conduct^ ••very justly asks them, " What fruit had ye then, " in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed r" And the same question may, with equal justice, be asked of every imprudent and abandoned sinner....

...as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God." " As ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness,...members servants to righteousness unto holiness." Rom. vi. 13, 19. And now, should the question be asked, " Are any of the children of God entirely dead...

...servants righteousness. 1 9 I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh : for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness....members servants to righteousness, unto holiness. 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then...

...from abroken and contrite heart ; — from persons who could be addressed in those words of St. Paul, What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed ? for the end of those things if death. But, my dear brethren, if you venture within the reach of such pernicious influence, knowingly,...

...when thou hadst no good motion at all in thee. So witnesseth the spirit of God by Paul, Rom. vi. 20. " For when ye were the servants of sin ye were free from righteousness." That is, ye were altogether destitute of . any saving grace, and were not at all subject to the law...

...servants of righteousness. 191 speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh : for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness...members servants to righteousness, unto holiness. 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then...