These are coupled together, as if they were the same thing. But they are not the same thing. The _guilt_ is one thing, the _power_ another, and the _being_ yet another. That believers are delivered from the _guilt_ and _power_ of sin we allow; that they are delivered from the _being_ of it we deny. Nor does it in any wise follow from these texts. A man may have the Spirit of God _dwelling in_ him, and may _walk after the Spirit_, tho’ he still feels _the flesh lusting against the Spirit_. 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. 6. “But are not Christians _come to the heavenly Jerusalem_, where _nothing defiled can enter_?” Heb. xii. 22. Yes; and _to an innumerable company of angels, and to the spirits of just men made perfect_: that is, Earth and heaven all agree; All his one great family. And they are likewise holy and _undefiled_, while they _walk after the Spirit_: although sensible, there is another principle in them, and that _these are contrary to each other_. 7. “But Christians are _reconciled to God_. Now this could not be, if any of the _carnal mind_ remained: for this is enmity against God. Consequently no reconciliation can be effected, but by its total destruction.” We _are reconciled to God thro’ the blood of the Cross_. And in that moment, the φρόνημα σαρκὸς the corruption of nature, which is _enmity with God_, is put under our feet. The flesh has _no more dominion_ over us. But it still _exists_: And it is still in its nature enmity with God, lusting against his Spirit. 8. “But _they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh, with its affections and lusts_.” _Gal._ v. 24. They have so: yet it remains in them still, and often struggles to break from the cross. “Nay, but they have _put off the old man with his deeds_.” _Col._ iii. 9. They have: and in the sense above described, _old things are passed away; all things are become new_. An hundred texts may be cited to the same effect. And they will all admit of the same answer. “But to say all in one word, _Christ gave himself for the church, that――it might be holy and without blemish_.” _Eph._ v. 25, 27. And so it will be in the end: but it never was yet from the beginning to this day. 9. “But let _experience_ speak. All who are justified do at that time find an absolute freedom from all sin.” That I doubt: But if they do, do they find it ever after? Else you gain nothing. “If they do not, it is their own fault.” That remains to be proved.