"Notwithstanding the law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."
— Osborn, Sarah (1714-1796)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Worcester
Publisher
Leonard Worcester
Date
w. 1796, 1799
Metaphor
"Notwithstanding the law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."
Metaphor in Context
[...] And these, "O that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments."--In reading Rom. vii. also, the Spirit of God bore witness with my spirit, that it is my daily experience that I do delight in the law of God, after the inward man. Notwithstanding the law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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Provenance
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Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1799)>
Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn: Who died at Newport, Rhode Island, On the Second Day of August, 1796. In the Eighty Third Year of Her Age, Ed. Samuel Hopkins (Worcester, MA: Leonard Worcester, 1799). <Link to Google Books>
Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn: Who died at Newport, Rhode Island, On the Second Day of August, 1796. In the Eighty Third Year of Her Age, Ed. Samuel Hopkins (Worcester, MA: Leonard Worcester, 1799). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
04/13/2012
