 | Benjamin Holloway - 1739 - 200 pages
...But, How to Perform that which if Good, I find not: To this I have no Ability : For, the Good that I would, I do not: but the Evil that I would not, that I du : For why ? I find a Law, a fervile Reftraint within me, that when I would do Good, Evil is prefent... | |
 | John Taylor - Sin, Original - 1750 - 528 pages
...is prefent with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not. Ver. 1 9. For the good that I would, I do not ; but the evil that I would not, that I do. Ver. 23. 1 fee another law in my members warring againft the law in my mind, and bringing me into captivity... | |
 | Zachary Pearce - Sermons, English - 1778 - 416 pages
...large of this perfon, of whom the text fpeaks. In his own name, he had faid of him, The good that I would, I do not ; but the evil that I would not, that I do : He had faid, I find a law, that, when I would do good, evil is prefent with me ; for I delight in... | |
 | John Brown - Devotional literature - 1792 - 362 pages
...powers, and exhaufled thy patience ? Lordj pity me, for " Lam carnal, fold under fin. The good that I would, I do not; but the evil that I would not, that do I." " I HAVE got preffed in." Rejoice, my foul, thy entrance into heaven fhall be much more abundant:... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 502 pages
...pleasing God, and abstaining from sin, according to that declaration of St. Paul, " The good that I would, " I do not; but the evil that I would not, that I tf do : therefore if I do that I would not, it is no Cf more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in... | |
 | Nathan Bangs - Theology, Doctrinal - 1815 - 336 pages
...a contradiction as to say a man is and is not at the same time. Chap, vii. 1 9. For the good that I would I do not, but the evil that I would not, that do I. ver. 1 8. To will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not. This... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 714 pages
...to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not ; for the good that I would, I do not; but the evil that I would not, that 1 do. For though I delight in the law of God after the inner man, yet I see another law in my members,... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1844 - 638 pages
...To will is present with me ; but how to perform that which is good, I find not For the good that I would, I do not ; but the evil that I would not, that I do. I find then a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 650 pages
...and dead in us, and that we no longer abide in that state of slavery, as to say, " The good that I would, I do not ; but the evil that I would not, that I do." 3. In the next place, we are to inquire in what degree this is to be effected ; for though in negatives,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 658 pages
...and dead in us, and that we no longer abide in that state of slavery, as to say, " The good that I would, I do not ; but the evil that I would not, that I do." 3. In the next place, we are to inquire in what degree this is to be effected ; for though in negatives,... | |
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For the good that I would I do not : but the evil that I would not, that I do. 
